John Calvin Quotes

Joy and thanksgiving expressed in prayer and praise according to the Word of God are the heart of the Church's worship.

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• My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Children
  • Dad
  • Loved

• When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Writing
  • Doing
  • Try

• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • Injustice
  • Rise

• As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Money
  • Want
  • Saying

• I think I really benefited from going to college.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Think
  • College
  • Going

• My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Opinions

• I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Think
  • Relationship
  • Poetry

• It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Think
  • For Him
  • Loving

• I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity is due to luck, and my literary longevity is due to my physical longevity.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Literature
  • Luck
  • Loved

• Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Death

• Life is full of regrets, but it doesn't pay to look back.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Life
  • Look
  • Regrets

• I have a rich, full, textured life.

  

  Lainie Kazan
  • Life
  • Rich
  • Full

• I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Think
  • Spring
  • Makeup

• The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Know
  • Impressed
  • Michel Foucault

• The richness of human life is that we have many lives, we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do, and if thereby we die a thousand deaths, that is the price we pay...

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Life
  • Live
  • Die

• Before creation Love was. After creation love is made. When love is consummated, creation will cease to be, and Love will be forever.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Forever

• A comedian is not a person who opens a funny door - he's the person who opens a door funny.

  

  Chuck Jones
  • Funny
  • Door

• Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Gentlemen

• The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Man
  • Blame
  • Praise

• True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God. Many people use religion as a way of getting something else from God they want-blessings, rewards, even escape from judgement. This is wearisome to us, and to God. But when God is His own reward, Christianity becomes thrilling. Sacrifice becomes joy.

  

  J. D. Greear
  • People
  • God
  • True

• Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

  

  Aristotle
  • Praise
  • Higher
  • Standard

• Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Joy
  • Absurdity
  • Lucidity

• Joy and thanksgiving expressed in prayer and praise according to the Word of God are the heart of the Church's worship.

  

  John Calvin
  • Joy
  • Praise
  • Word Of God