John Calvin Quotes

Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.

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• I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.

  

  Walter Legge
  • Arts
  • Useless
  • Committees

• As a youngster, my parents made me aware that all that was from the African Diaspora belonged to me. So I came in with Caribbean music, African music, Latin music, gospel music and blues.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Parents
  • Gospel

• The Gospel has to be the norm.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Gospel
  • Norm

• If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather to serve the pleasures of the flesh than to serve the Lord, and refuse to accept the Gospel life, there is no common ground between me and them.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Life
  • Men
  • Lord

• The mission proper to the Church is that of proclaiming the Gospel.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Church
  • Mission
  • Gospel

• Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

  

  Quintilian
  • Rules
  • Gifts
  • Useless

• When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Gospel
  • Stake

• The gospel is the proclamation of the person and work of Jesus Christ and how those benefits can be applied to us by faith alone.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Work
  • Faith
  • Alone

• Because the eternal principle of agency gives us the freedom to choose and think for ourselves, we should become increasingly able to solve problems. We may make the occasional mistake, but as long as we are following gospel principles and guidelines, we can learn from those mistakes and become more understanding of others and more effective in serving them.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Long
  • May
  • Freedom

• A truth of the gospel is not a truth until you live it. You do not really believe in tithing until you pay it. The word of wisdom to you is not a truth of the gospel until you keep it. The Sabbath day is not a holy day unless you observe it. . . . A friend is not a friend unless you defend him.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Truth

• Never is the gospel of Jesus Christ more beautiful than in times of intense need, or in times of a severe storm within us as individuals, or in times of confusion and turmoil.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Beautiful
  • Jesus
  • Storm

• The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Making
  • Excuse
  • Useless

• We are constantly straining to devise new methods, new plans, new organizations to advance the Church and secure enlargement and efficiency for the gospel. This trend of the day has a tendency to lose sight of the man or sink the man in the plan or organization. God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men...

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Men
  • Church

• You know you wanna do your career, but at the same time, it could end any day and there are so many things in this industry that are stupid and vain, like photo shoots every day. I have always a struggle with that.

  

  Uffie
  • Time
  • Career
  • Struggle

• Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Develop
  • Content

• It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.

  

  Plato
  • Vain
  • Sober
  • Knock

• Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Fashion
  • Vain
  • Conform

• The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Qualities
  • Vain
  • Illuminating

• We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us; and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six persons immediately around us is enough to amuse and satisfy us.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Vain
  • Esteem
  • Satisfy

• The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Activity
  • Arts
  • Useless

• If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood or stone? You must seek without seeking.

  

  Wumen Huikai
  • Different
  • Earth
  • Sound

• In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according to what we know and, where we aren't absolutely sure, what might be most likely to have happened, within the generally accepted rules of evidence and sources.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • History
  • Know
  • Present

• Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.

  

  John Calvin
  • Gospel
  • Vain
  • Useless