R. C. Sproul Quotes

Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all.

R. C. Sproul

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• We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

  

  Olin Miller
  • People
  • Know
  • Worry

• I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Together
  • Day
  • End

• I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Work
  • Decision
  • Protect

• I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.

  

  Sally Field
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Dialogue

• The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going and head off to work every morning and come home at night. Sometimes I'll write for two days straight and then be utterly blank for the next two.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Home

• I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Dark
  • Aggressive
  • Aggression

• When I come to a design decision, people know that is that.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • People
  • Decision
  • Design

• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Books

• If I have anything, it's tenacity.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Anything
  • Tenacity

• I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Moment
  • Living
  • Nostalgia

• The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Language
  • Same
  • Task

• What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.

  

  Kal Penn
  • World
  • Space
  • Like

• I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Different
  • Character

• Audiences are very willing to be taken somewhere, and to ask an audience beforehand what it wants is probably, I think, a mistake. Much better you should tell them what you want and hope they agree with it.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Hope
  • Think
  • Taken

• I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Time
  • Revolution
  • Process

• There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• As educators and policy makers, it is important to demonstrate for parents the connection between high levels of student participation in assessment and system accountability - ensuring the success of every student.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Important
  • High
  • Success

• If I go out in the open ocean environment, virtually anywhere in the world, and I drag a net from 3,000 feet to the surface, most of the animals - in fact, in many places, 80 to 90 percent of the animals that I bring up in that net - make light. This makes for some pretty spectacular light shows.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Up
  • World
  • Pretty

• And while you and the rest of your kind are battling together-year after year-for this special privilege of being 'bored to death,' the 'real girl' that you're asking about, the marvelous girl, the girl with the big, beautiful, unspoken thoughts in her head, the girl with the big, brave, undone deeds in her heart, the girl that stories are made of, the girl whom you call 'improbable'-is moping off alone in some dark, cold corner-or sitting forlornly partnerless against the bleak wall of the ballroom-or hiding shyly up in the dressing-room-waiting to be discovered!

  

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
  • Heart
  • Death
  • Brave

• Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Me
  • Animals

• Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.

  

  Karl Rahner
  • God
  • Reality
  • Grace

• Women know what they're doing all the time, and they're pretending that they don't.

  

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
  • Time
  • Women

• Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Less
  • Conception