John Flavel Quotes

You are not to come to Christ because you are qualified, but that you may be qualified with whatever you want; and the best qualification you can bring is a deep sense that you have no worth or excellency at all in you.

John Flavel

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• The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Great
  • Book
  • Truth

• One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • May
  • Job
  • I Can

• The title 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' is meant to be a deconstruction of a stereotype, and the whole show is about deconstructing the boxes that we're supposed to be put into. We like taking apart the tropes and the stereotypes and explore the nuances, so 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' is a label that we go deep underneath to explore.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Crazy
  • Deep
  • Explore

• Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • May
  • Today
  • Parents

• I usually travel with a posse. I roll deep. I travel like a rapper, but without the artillery. We don't carry guns, we carry cookies.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Deep
  • Travel
  • Cookies

• The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • May
  • End
  • Smile

• I have registered few titles like 'Bharat Bandh,' 'Calendar Girl,' 'Money Politics.' The titles just intrigued me, so I registered. I had a title, 'Jai Ho,' which I gave to Sohail Khan for his next film with Salman Khan. These are typical Madhur Bhandarkar kind of films. I may make a film or not on such titles... not sure yet.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Money
  • May
  • Girl

• Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Real

• A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • May
  • Simple
  • Present

• After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • People
  • Great
  • May

• Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • May
  • Death
  • Relationship

• I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Believe
  • America
  • Black

• Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • May
  • Same
  • Perception

• Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • May
  • Greatest
  • Privilege

• I really believe deep in my soul that we're going to have to step up and face these challenges and be tough and pull together and unify and be creative and be willing to sacrifice.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Together

• We are all aware that corruption is pervasive. It operates at every level. The poor may carry its greatest burden, but it is an affliction that every Indian is desperate to be rid of.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • May
  • Greatest
  • Corruption

• I had a low image of myself because I was brought up in the deep Depression.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Deep

• That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • May
  • Wealth
  • Products

• Everyone prefers some foods over others, but some adults take this tendency to an extreme. These people tend to prefer the kinds of bland food they may have enjoyed as children - such as plain or buttered pasta, macaroni and cheese, cheese pizza, French fries and grilled cheese sandwiches - and to restrict their eating to just a few dishes.

  

  Andrew Weil
  • People
  • Children
  • May

• I get a lot of heat from the Left, which is bizarre. I get a lot of heat from the Right, too, but the vitriol is from the Left.

  

  Jake Tapper

• I'm one of the highest-paid television people in the world. I feel like I've made a difference in my viewers' lives, that I've been influential.

  

  Cristina Saralegui
  • People
  • World

• CBS's Major Garrett writes in 'National Journal' about a new version of the 'stray voltage' theory of communication in which the president purposefully overstates his case knowing that it will create controversy.

  

  John Dickerson
  • Communication

• No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice. … No nation's security and well-being can be lastingly achieved in isolation but only in effective cooperation with fellow-nations.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • People
  • Earth
  • Peace

• You are not to come to Christ because you are qualified, but that you may be qualified with whatever you want; and the best qualification you can bring is a deep sense that you have no worth or excellency at all in you.

  

  John Flavel
  • May
  • Deep