John Calvin Quotes

The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.

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• When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Great
  • American
  • War

• I write and do all my arrangements on my Mac. And um, I use Logic Pro, which is a great software program.

  

  Wang Leehom
  • Great
  • Logic
  • Software

• Poetry emulates the Cosmos perhaps because the Cosmos itself is the grandest conceivable example of rhythm, rhyme, harmony and concinnity.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Poetry

• All you do is head straight for the grave, a face just covers a skull awhile. Stretch that skull-cover and smile.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Smile

• So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • World
  • Live
  • Pretty

• Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its vain Competitive excuse.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Air

• An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Faith
  • Fashion
  • Waves

• You have some people that's weak, and you have some people that's strong. I consider myself a very strong person.

  

  Blac Chyna
  • People
  • Strong

• It's okay to talk about birth, okay - then menstruation. I first started my advocacy for women's health in the field of reproductive freedom, and the next stage would be bringing menopause out of the closet.

  

  Cybill Shepherd
  • Women
  • Freedom
  • Health

• I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless.

  

  Thom Yorke Radiohead
  • Up

• I hate when people have food in their mouths and they don't swallow before they talk. Like, they store it in their cheek when they talk to you. It drives me nuts.

  

  Jessica Lowndes
  • People
  • Hate
  • Food

• We break our promises to one another. We break our promises to God. But God never breaks His promises to us.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Break
  • Promises

• I also like some of Joel Osteen's work. I think he's now doing a book about one of my favorite sermons of his, "The Power of 'I Am.' " I just love that sermon.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Work
  • Book
  • Power

• I believe all sin, love, glory are this: when you slide down the knotted sheets, escaping from Gestapo headquarters, and she hugs you, there, suspended, and she whispers that she's always dreamed of you. The rest is just sex, copulation, the perpetuation of the vile species.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Believe
  • She
  • Rest

• A government cannot be expected to allow independence to its central bank unless that bank is also accountable to it and to the wider public. That is, the central bank must be able to be judged on whether or not it has achieved its agreed objective.

  

  Ian Macfarlane
  • Government
  • Achievement
  • Independence

• Art persists, it timelessly continues.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Continues
  • Persists

• The company calls it 'downsizing' or 'rightsizing.' My own informal "Name the Layoff" contest produced some other euphemisms: Retroactive Hiring Freeze, Resume Revision Days, Amway Opportunity Time, and Corporation Lite.

  

  Dale Dauten
  • Time
  • Opportunity

• Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.

  

  Plato
  • Justice
  • Interest
  • Principle

• Americans tote guns because they're assertive citizens, not docile subjects of a permanent governing class. They love their military because they think there's something contemptible about Europeans preening and posing as a great power when they can't even stop some nickel'n'dime Balkan genital-severers piling up hundreds of thousands of corpses on their borders.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Up
  • Great
  • Thinking

• Where Scripture speaks of the world's creation, it is not plainly said whether or when the angels were created; but if mention is made, it is implicit under the name of "heaven," when it is said, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

  

  Saint Augustine
  • World
  • God
  • Earth

• We need not only read Sacred Scripture, but learn it as well and grow up in it. Realize that nothing is written in Scripture unnecessarily. Not to read Sacred Scripture is a great evil.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Up
  • Great
  • Evil

• Follow your instinct. That's my message.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Instinct
  • Follow

• The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.

  

  John Calvin
  • Scripture
  • Voices
  • Thieves