John Bevere Quotes

When we oppose God's delegated authority, we oppose God Himself.

John Bevere

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• I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Life
  • Children
  • Control

• I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.

  

  Wendell Wilkie
  • Know
  • Day
  • Lose

• If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Respect

• The Tea Party has very close affinities with independent third-party movements like the George Wallace movement. The Tea Party is still inchoate, still trying to figure out what it's going to become.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Trying
  • Party
  • Independent

• Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Science
  • New
  • Year

• We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Relationship
  • Only
  • Threaten

• We're more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits.

  

  Adam Jones
  • More
  • Radio
  • Making

• How are we to reconcile our supreme duty towards memory with the need to forget that is essential to life? No generation has had to confront this paradox with such urgency. The survivors wanted to communicate everything to the living: the victim's solitude and sorrow, the tears of mothers driven to madness, the prayers of the doomed beneath a fiery sky.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Life
  • Sky
  • Tears

• God’s grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious. We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite. God sets limits to His patience and forbearance. He warns us over and over again that someday the ax will fall and His judgment will be poured out.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Experience
  • Fall

• Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • People
  • Problem
  • Care

• She was his and he was hers. They had under-the-skin privileges.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • She
  • Privilege
  • Skins

• Then you'll feel your cheek scratched... A little kiss, like a crazy spider, Will run round your neck... And you'll say to me : "Find it !" bending your head - And we'll take a long time to find that creature - Which travels a lot.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Time
  • Long
  • Crazy

• I hate motorcycles. Because if I hit one, even if it's not my fault, if I've done nothing wrong, I'm not charged with manslaughter, he's gonna die, because he's on a motorcycle. So I have to live my life knowing that I killed this guy.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Life
  • Live
  • Done

• We're at a deadlock with a couple of people in the Senate who know everything, ... So we have to do what we have to do to make this work and kick the can down the road for another fight.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • People
  • Work
  • Couple

• Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Time
  • Long
  • Stills

• To form a judgment intuitively is the privilege of few; authority and example lead the rest of the world. They see with the eyes of others, they hear with the ears of others. Therefore it is very easy to think as all the world now think; but to think as all the world will think thirty years hence is not in the power of every one.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Power
  • Judgment
  • Authority

• When we oppose God's delegated authority, we oppose God Himself.

  

  John Bevere
  • Authority