John Calvin Quotes

The Scriptures obtain full authority among believers only when men regard them as having sprung from heaven, as if there the living words of God were heard.

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• I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Believe
  • You
  • Kind

• Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.

  

  Edmund White
  • Success
  • Me
  • Boy

• Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Think
  • Choice
  • Old

• The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Creative
  • Building
  • Aim

• Controversies are part and parcel of making a big film.

  

  Vijay
  • Film
  • Big
  • Parcel

• Like every actress, I, too, had movies that got stuck, but I have learnt to always look at the best in every situation and to give my best to every situation.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Best
  • Movies
  • Situation

• It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Good
  • Opportunity
  • Challenge

• That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Respect
  • Football
  • Reason

• Faith is important to me.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Important
  • Faith
  • Me

• Beings who are so uniquely constituted must necessarily express themselves in other ways than ordinary men. It is impossible that with souls so differently modified, they should not carry over into the expression of their feelings and ideas the stamp of those modifications.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Men

• What else does a detective agency really need? Detective agencies rely on human intuition and intelligence, both of which Mma Ramotswe had in abundance. No inventory would ever include those, of course.

  

  Alexander McCall Smith
  • Intuition

• We work very closely together on the issue of annexation of Crimea and Russia’s attempt to actually conquer Ukraine. And actually they did so - conquered part of the territory. We tried to come to a peaceful settlement here on this.

  

  Angela Merkel
  • Work
  • Together

• At the root of the assault on our liberties is, in fact, an assault on our character-an assault that assumes that we are not good enough to be free, and that aims to make sure that we are no longer strong enough, courageous enough, disciplined enough to be a free people.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • People
  • Good
  • Character

• El hombre, cuando sabe que es una cosa cómica, no ríe.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I'm a pathetic haggler and often give more than the original price out of a misplaced sense of duty.

  

  Joanna Lumley

• When I was about 13 I realised girls weren't going to kiss me because I was a gigantic, weird looking creature from the depths. I was like 6 ft. aged 11.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • Weird
  • Kiss

• You have to persevere, you have to just not give up, and you have to know what you want. You have to be able to see your dream.

  

  Dawn Steel
  • Up
  • Dream

• Food decisions - do I eat this or not? - are always going to be there.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
  • Food

• Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • People
  • World
  • Community

• There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with childhood, with home.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Life
  • Home
  • Childhood

• The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Music
  • Death
  • Thing

• Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. "I don't adopt any one's ideas; I have my own.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Ideas
  • Adopt
  • Drew

• Who turns away from gazing at the sun Sees its dusk images fill all the air. It is not otherwise when Hope is done: Her darkling phantoms make the heaven of Despair.

  

  Edith M. Thomas
  • Hope
  • Heaven
  • Air

• The Scriptures obtain full authority among believers only when men regard them as having sprung from heaven, as if there the living words of God were heard.

  

  John Calvin
  • Heaven
  • Scriptures
  • Believers