John Calvin Quotes

If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon.

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• We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
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• Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.

  

  James Brown
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• We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.

  

  W. G. Sebald
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• Everything begins with the resolve to take the first step. From that action, wisdom arises and change begins. Without action, nothing changes.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
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• That's why I called it Dangerously In Love. It's basically all of the steps in a relationship from when you first meet a guy to realizing you're interested to dancing with him the first night to thinking that you're in love to realizing that you're now a little open to making love to breaking up to having to love yourself after the breakup. All of that. A celebration of love.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
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• Hermione, will you please —” “Don’t you tell me what to do, Harry Potter!” she screeched. “Don’t you dare! Give it back now! And YOU!” She was pointing at Ron in dire accusation: It was like a malediction, and Harry could not blame Ron for retreating several steps.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• The life-giving preacher is a man of God, whose heart is ever athirst for God, whose soul is ever following hard after God, whose eye is single to God, and in whom by the power of God's Spirit the flesh and the world have been crucified, and his ministry is like the generous flood of a life-giving river.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
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• I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.

  

  Adam Sandler
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• The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.

  

  e. e. cummings
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• Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.

  

  H. G. Wells
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• Trouble comes not because we have taken any wrong step but because we are in a complex and contradictory world.

  

  T. B. Joshua
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• I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.

  

  Bill Vaughan
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• What you put into it is what you're going to get out of it. If you're getting the chance to step into the octagon, you better be going full speed and give it everything you've got.

  

  B.J. Penn
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• I daren't come and drink," said Jill. Then you will die of thirst," said the Lion. Oh dear!" said Jill, coming another step nearer."I suppose I must go and look for another stream then." There is no other stream," said the Lion.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• I'll give him credit for any steps in the right direction, but I'm not moving him into the recommend column until he fixes all of it.

  

  John Reed
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• I'm proud, and Islam did it. And after these things that I heard in church, a preacher and watching this and that, I knew something was wrong but I couldn't pinpoint it.

  

  Muhammad Ali
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• Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
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• All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
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• If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I'd be willing to. But I'd do brain surgery the same way. I'm always up for something new.

  

  Carter Burwell
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• Kafka is one of my very favorite writers. Kafka's fictional world is already so complete that trying to follow in his steps is not just pointless, but quite risky, too. What I see myself doing, rather, is writing novels where, in my own way, I dismantle the fictional world of Kafka that itself dismantled the existing novelistic system.

  

  Haruki Murakami
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• Nobody black or white who really believes in democracy can stand aside now; everybody's got to stand up and be counted.

  

  Lena Horne
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• All good writers inspire me as I have never thought I was any good. As far as a writer who made me think I could do it, it was Henry Miller. Not because I thought he was so simple that I reckoned I could pull it off as well, but it was his freedom and guts that really moved me to want to write all the time.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
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• My mission is to tell the story of the birth of ourselves as a universal humanity, awakening all of us to our unique opportunity to participate through our own conscious evolution.

  

  Barbara Marx Hubbard
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• If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon.

  

  John Calvin
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