Martin Luther Quotes

The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.

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• I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Family
  • Grow

• You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Believe
  • You
  • Lies

• I did 'Are We There Yet?' because I wanted to do a movie for my fans' kids. Black kids don't really see movies on this budget for them, starring them. And there's so many white kids that love that movie.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Fans

• The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.

  

  Nate Parker
  • American
  • Dream
  • Opportunity

• Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Truth
  • Religious
  • Identity

• I hate the word sexy.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Hate
  • Sexy
  • Word

• You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Country
  • Love
  • America

• I exist as I am, that is enough.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Enough
  • Exist

• I love to have a band, but dancers are my priority because I really want a show, you know?

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Love
  • Want
  • Know

• Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

  

  Sallust
  • Man
  • Action
  • Thought

• The person who, let us say, expects generosity from a bank, efficient flexibility from a government agency, open-mindedness from a religious institution will be disappointed. In each purview the notions represent immorality. The poor fool might as quickly discover love among the mantises.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Religious
  • Fool
  • Generosity

• I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child...

  

  Amy Tan
  • Fighting

• I've spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he's a damn good songwriter.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Life
  • Good
  • Petty

• For writing, I get up early in the morning - 5 o'clock, 4:30. I'm a morning person... So I try to do it while people are asleep. The mornings are the nicest.

  

  Patti Scialfa
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• We may not like our times or many aspects of the time we live in but that is not the fault of art as such.

  

  David Elliott
  • Time
  • Live
  • Art

• My book sales make 'real writers' possible.

  

  Jennifer Weiner
  • Real
  • Book
  • Sales

• One of the reasons that our colleges have gotten so expensive is because of tenure.

  

  Carlos Beruff

• I'm no good at down-time. I panic slightly and then plan a project or set up a meeting about starting a project.

  

  David Morrissey
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Race
  • Lazy
  • Negroes

• Jesus did not come to the Earth to start 285 squabbling denominations fighting over the Bible. How like the devil to divide Christians over the Bible.

  

  John Hagee
  • Earth
  • Fighting
  • Jesus

• Anything that dims my vision for Christ, or takes away my taste for Bible study, or cramps me in my prayer life, or makes Christian work difficult, is wrong for me; and I must, as a Christian turn away from it.

  

  J. Chapman
  • Life
  • Work
  • Christian

• There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded, that something very useful and profound is couched underneath; and again, that whatever word or sentence is printed in a different character, shall be judged to contain something extraordinary either or wit of sublime.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Character
  • Doubt
  • Understood

• First and foremost, God is the true hero of the story. No matter how captivating the other characters may be, our top priority is to discover what the Bible reveals about God.

  

  Carolyn Custis James
  • God
  • Story
  • Hero

• The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Bible
  • Understood
  • Fools