John Calvin Quotes

No one in this earthly prison of the body has sufficient strength of his own to press forward with a due degree of watchfulness, and the great majority of Christians are kept down with such great weakness that they stagger and halt and even creep on the ground, and so make very slight advances.

John Calvin

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• Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Family
  • Father
  • Girl

• Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Fun
  • Laughter
  • Healing

• Ali was a guy that had a lot of discipline. If you hung around him, you'd be able to get some of that discipline that he had. And I learned from that. He was a sweet man.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Sweet

• As I get older, I find that wearing bright colors cheers me up.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Up
  • Me
  • Find

• I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women's empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• Muslims who commit terrorist acts are perverting their religion.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Religion
  • Commit
  • Muslims

• If you live in the overlapping world of politics and media, as I am learning, anything less than full transparency can potentially do you in.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • World
  • Live
  • Learning

• Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Very
  • Well
  • Villain

• Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.

  

  Bart Starr
  • Power
  • Attitude
  • Unique

• So vast is the shadow cast by the MGM production of 'The Wizard of Oz,' so indelible are its characterizations, so perfect its music, and so assured is its cinematic immortality, that most people think of it as 'The Original.' In fact, it isn't.

  

  Kage Baker
  • People
  • Music
  • Perfect

• If you're going to play high school football, you do it in Texas or Florida or Georgia for the simple fact it's such a big deal.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • School
  • High
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• And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Good
  • Family
  • Friends

• The future of the world's film industry is in China because we have 1.3 billion people.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • People
  • World
  • Future

• It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.

  

  Hal David
  • Work
  • Done
  • Song

• All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Wife
  • Marriage
  • Husband

• I imagine how hard it might be to walk down the runway. Me in heels is, like, deforesting the forest, knocking trees, completely 'timber!'

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Walk
  • Forest
  • Trees

• 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 think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Television
  • Overrated
  • Les Moonves

• We are seeing entrepreneurs issuing their own blockchain-based tokens to raise money for their networks, sidestepping the traditional, exclusive world of venture capital altogether. The importance of this cannot be overstated - in this new world, there are no companies, just protocols.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • World
  • Money
  • Seeing

• You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality. When at last age has assembled you together, will it not be easy to let it all go, lived, balanced, over?

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Life
  • Events
  • Claim

• Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space.

  

  Krista Tippett
  • Space

• No one in this earthly prison of the body has sufficient strength of his own to press forward with a due degree of watchfulness, and the great majority of Christians are kept down with such great weakness that they stagger and halt and even creep on the ground, and so make very slight advances.

  

  John Calvin
  • Weakness
  • Prison
  • Christians