John Calvin Quotes

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• I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Inspired

• It's not just the physical aspect of boxing, it's the whole fighter mentality that has been ingrained in me through the years as a competitive athlete. One of the hardest things you'll ever do is to box - to get into the ring and to face off with somebody whose whole goal is to knock you out, to hurt you, and to be able to fight back.

  

  Cara Castronuova
  • Hurt
  • Goal
  • Fight

• The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • God
  • Man
  • Stop

• Water is the foundation for our economies, communities, ecosystems, and quality of life.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Life
  • Water
  • Quality

• Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Great
  • Interesting

• I like to read. Autobiographies.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Autobiography

• There is certainly enough money involved in this racing industry that jockeys and backside people should not have to be going through the hoops that they are going through to have adequate coverage.

  

  Ed Whitfield
  • People
  • Money
  • Coverage

• Satan could make an "A" in my Systematic Theology course. He knows the information and knows that the information is true.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • True
  • Information
  • Satan

• Fourth, come home from work and take an active role with your family. Don't put work, friends, or sports ahead of listening to, playing with, and teaching your children.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Work
  • Children
  • Family

• The helicopter appeared so reluctant to fly forward that we even considered turning the pilot's seat around and letting it fly backward.

  

  Igor Sikorsky
  • Fly
  • Flight
  • Aviation

• This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and necessary stepping stone.

  

  Igor Sikorsky
  • Important
  • Failure
  • Fly

• Losing someone we love, or the fear of losing someone we love one day is a difficult experience and we can all relate to it. None of us are an exception to this reality.

  

  Aamir Khan
  • Experience
  • Reality
  • Fear

• Other-cheekism is not only a way of purifying the soul, it is also part of every weak person's survival kit.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Soul
  • Survival

• Summer skylarks Dart about the heavens Above the deep mountains.

  

  Dakotsu Iida
  • Deep
  • Summer

• Do you know anything at all that nobody else knows or, for that matter, gives a damn about? If you do, then sit tight, because one of these days you're going to Hollywood as a technical supervisor on a million dollar movie.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Movie

• Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and then say which outweighs the other? If you weigh pleasures against pleasures, you of course take the more and greater; or if you weigh pains against pains, then you choose that course of action in which the painful is exceeded by the pleasant, whether the distant by the near or the near by the distant; and you avoid that course of action in which the pleasant is exceeded by the painful.

  

  Plato
  • Balance
  • Pleasure
  • Pains

• Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.

  

  John Calvin
  • Christ
  • Destroy
  • Save

• The whole gospel is contained in Christ.

  

  John Calvin
  • Christ
  • Gospel