R. C. Sproul Quotes
Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. He is the Seeker; we are the ones who are running.
Quotes to Explore
-
I believed I was invincible.
-
House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
-
When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?
-
When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
-
Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
-
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
-
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
-
Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
-
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
-
Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
-
You have to take over your town in order to take over your city.
-
As soldiers in Israel's army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher.
-
I was in law school at the University of Kentucky and realized I didn't really like law school, so I took a creative writing course for something different.
-
I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
-
'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
-
I've been an entrepreneur all my life, and my recent focus is on finding entrepreneurial solutions to address global challenges in healthcare and education.
-
In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
-
What I support is moving Medicaid to block grants so that the states can drive that process.
-
I have spent some time talking to Rex Tillerson. He's an amazing human being. He's an American success story, not just in his business life. He's a rags-to-riches success story. He stated working at 8, lived in a one-bedroom house until the time he went to college, and grew to become the CEO of one of the world's largest companies.
-
The problem of far greater importance remains to be solved. Rather than build a world in which we shall all live well, we must stop building one in which it will be impossible to live at all.
-
When you start just focusing exclusively on trying to tear the other person down instead of what you are going to do on behalf of the American people to deal with this economy, then that's not serving Democrats, that's not serving Republicans, that's not serving anybody.
-
Because so many rooms are run by men they're just used to women being the "that" - to be adored and dreamed about.
-
Believing that you are the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus and simply receiving the gift of no condemnation gives you the power to go and sin no more.
-
Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. He is the Seeker; we are the ones who are running.
