Eric Butterworth Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
-
I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
-
I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling.
-
I believe we are created in the image of God for a particular purpose, and I believe that with all my heart.
-
The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.
-
Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.
-
A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.
-
I came to realize I did believe in God. I couldn't conceive of a universe without someone overseeing it in a compassionate way.
-
I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that good, thank them. Thank God for them. But I don't think so.
-
Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
-
God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.
-
I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God.
-
I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where.
-
God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
-
To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
-
Sometimes I pray when I really feel like I need God to help me with something, and sometimes we just have conversations. We just kick it.
-
Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.
-
Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.
-
My relationship with God developed at an early age. I was raised on a remote little ranch, where I had for company and for the fullness of my life three other humans and an enormous amount of animals and land and sky and wind. As a child, my experience of God included everything-a love of the whole beauty around me. And the country was so beautiful: mountains that ended in aspen groves and streams, thick with wild animals and game of all kinds. One time I said to my mother, "You know, I think heaven is just like this, only the animals would speak to us; they wouldn't be afraid of us."
-
When I was a kid, I was roaming through Glastonbury Festival at eight years old, on my own. I say 'on my own', but I was probably with my oldest sister Sarah, and she would have been 13 or 14 at the time, so she'd have been walking us around. But I got to go places and meet people, and was trusted a lot, without a doubt.
-
In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.
-
Everybody has their thing. I think you can always do what you like.
-
What I know now about life is this: your mother is a part of everything you do and everything you are.
-
God can only do for you what He can do through you.
