Eric Liddell Quotes

Purity does not mean crushing the instincts but having the instincts as servants and not the master of the spirit.

Eric Liddell

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• Instincts
• Purity
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• Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • America
  • History
  • Thought

• Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Man
  • Stars
  • Theory

• I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Jazz

• In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.

  

  Yishan Wong
  • More
  • Media
  • Social Media

• It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Writing
  • Relax
  • Profession

• He said that humanity in the main was crass, stupid, boorish and vulgar, and that I could learn at least this much from you.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Humanity
  • Stupid

• I'm not an overly skilled piano player or organ player at all, but I think I'm the right piano and organ player for the Heartbreakers. And I've been the right piano and organ player for a lot of sessions that I've been called on.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Player

• I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden. Along with sunshine, there's got to be a little rain sometime.

  

  Lynn Anderson
  • Garden
  • Rain
  • Rose

• Love is a sensation caused by temptation when a guy sticks his location into a girl's destination to increase the population for the next generation. Do you understand my explanation or do you need a demonstration?

  

  AJ McLean
  • Guy
  • Girl
  • Love Is

• If I do become more successful, either as a producer or a rapper, I'm going to do everything I can to help whoever I can on the label.

  

  Kanye West
  • Help

• Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend your sick ones, O Lord Jesus Christ; rest your weary ones; bless your dying ones; soothe your suffering ones; pity your afflicted ones; shield your joyous ones; and all for your love's sake. Amen.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Rest
  • Jesus
  • Sleep

• Some people wonder why they can't have faith for healing. They feed their body three hot meals a day, and their spirit one cold snack a week.

  

  F. F. Bosworth
  • People
  • Why
  • Faith

• You should never risk your integrity or your soul for any amount of money.

  

  Charles R. Jackson
  • Money
  • Soul
  • Risk

• The many refugees are not a Greek or German problem. They are a European problem. We should therefore develop a common strategy. That's why I am launching a cross-border movement for more democracy.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Why
  • Democracy
  • German

• A white man killed the mules and our cows that knocked us right back down. And things got so tough then I began to wish I was white.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Men
  • Wish
  • White

• As far as being an actor is concerned, you have to have passion. If you're not bringing the passion of the character into the room with you, you might as well not come into the room at all.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Character
  • Passion

• Keep it simple, so you'll keep doing it.

  

  Steve Krug
  • Simple
  • Doing
  • Keep

• I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.'

  

  Rickie Lee Jones
  • Terrible
  • Manager
  • Downward

• The well-being of mankind, its peace and security, are unattainable unless and until its unity is firmly established.

  

  Bahá'u'lláh
  • Peace
  • Unity

• Man is a part of the world, and his spirit is part of the spirit of the world. We are merely a peculiar mode of Being, a living atom within it, or, rather, a cell that, if sufficiently open to itself and its own mystery, can also experience the mystery, the will, the pain, and the hope of the world.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Experience
  • Hope

• When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Eye
  • Spirit
  • Flesh

• Purity does not mean crushing the instincts but having the instincts as servants and not the master of the spirit.

  

  Eric Liddell
  • Spirit
  • Instincts
  • Purity