R. C. Sproul Quotes

Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.

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• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Up
  • Think
  • Gay

• As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Long
  • Want
  • Health

• You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • World
  • Mother
  • Impact

• I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Women
  • Free

• You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • You
  • Difference
  • Tell

• I've always looked at 2016, but 2020 is realistic for me. I'll be 23 in 2016, but if I keep on progressing, hopefully 2016 will be a medal chance as well for me.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Always
  • Chance
  • Hopefully

• You don't fight ideas with bombs.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • You
  • Ideas
  • Fight

• Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • God
  • Thoughts

• Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Bad
  • Ideas

• I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Same
  • Speech

• America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Country
  • Civilization
  • Barbarism

• The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Sports
  • Achievement

• If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Great
  • School
  • Help

• It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Important
  • Age
  • Matter

• I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movie
  • Thought
  • Stars

• When it comes to cooking pasta, the first essential is to make sure you have a big enough pot: it needs room to roll in the water while cooking.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Water
  • Enough
  • Cooking

• I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • Work
  • Love
  • Would

• Well, I hear that Laurel Canyon is full of famous stars,But I hate them worse than lepers and I'll kill them in their cars.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Hate
  • Famous

• It becomes an extension of your imagination to make something tangible and concrete.

  

  Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
  • Imagination
  • Concrete
  • Extension

• I feel great that I've been given a chance in the golden years of my life. To me, it's the last battle, and I've been given a chance to get stuck in some good armament, some good power, and there's a chance that now I can finish off my working years with my head held high.

  

  Eric Burdon
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: "Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • People
  • Good
  • Why