John Calvin Quotes
We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.
Quotes to Explore
-
I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.
-
Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
-
To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
-
Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now.
-
The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.
-
I'm old enough to chew my peas and corn without choking.
-
I've cracked my head open before; I've had some great injuries. So I have to do it on the side now. I cracked my head open kiting before a competition in New Caledonia. The water was shallow, and I missed a trick and hit my head on a rock.
-
I'm so grateful that anyone has connected with my songs, let alone millions of people.
-
I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal like that.
-
Yeah, I can understand that. All the splendor of the Taj Mahal, without the inconvenience and expense of traveling to India.
-
There is no way from us to God - not even via negativa not even a via dialectica nor paradoxa. The god who stood at the end of some human way - even of this way - would not be God.
-
I'm one of those guys that spins through the clicker when I'm watching TV. When one of my movies comes on, I'll watch a scene or two.
-
I concentrate on making everything strong, and you can't do that with just cardio. I strength-train one day - and I'm not talking heavy weights, just a little. I see my trainer one day, next day I take a yoga class or cook. I'm not someone who just opens a pantry and rustles something up.
-
But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.
-
Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.
-
I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone - when the time was right for me.
-
Texas has more effectively capitalized on its opportunities as a border state, and I've always said that I want to look to states that are doing better than we are and replicate those success stories in Arizona.
-
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
-
In Peter Ackroyd's book 'London: The Biography,' he describes the route of the medieval wall that enclosed the original city. Take the book and follow it from the Tower of London via the Barbican to Ludgate Hill. You experience the real history of London.
-
Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.
-
There's no one right way to be a person, we're all just doing our best. So the same thing should apply to parenting and raising your children and the things you go through.
-
We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.
