Joseph Prince Quotes

Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing, but God's grace will stop sin.

Joseph Prince

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• I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Perspective
  • Ambition
  • Grace

• I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard he was there, and when it was time to leave, he left.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Time
  • Love
  • Think

• Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Help
  • Baby
  • Grace

• I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.

  

  Kajol
  • Home
  • Sin
  • Laziness

• It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had. Any man might have his coming to him to ask him grace or judgment in such case as the king may give.

  

  Jack Cade
  • May
  • Man
  • King

• You don't know what the country is ready for unless you're pushing that envelope, and I was told that I couldn't develop 'Will and Grace'.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Country
  • Know
  • Grace

• In Jenny Offill's remarkable first novel, 'Last Things,' 7-year-old Grace Davitt watches her mother, Anna, descend into madness and tries to make sense of the claustrophobic world that Anna has created for her.

  

  Nancy Willard
  • World
  • Mother
  • Grace

• I am the biggest klutz on set. I honestly don't think I have ever been as klutzy as when I'm on set. People call me 'Grace' ironically because I'm not graceful. It's ridiculous.

  

  Laura Marano
  • People
  • Grace
  • Set

• There is no question that what we are seeing - the horrible advance of ISIS - goes back, if you will, to the original sin of the invasion of Iraq.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Question
  • Sin
  • Seeing

• Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Present
  • Jesus
  • Smile

• The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Life
  • Sin
  • Against

• Sin is cosmic treason

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Sin
  • Cosmic
  • Treason

• The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Life
  • Sin
  • Burden

• People never fail to amaze me. They face the unimaginable with a shot of grace and a rush of adrenaline; they steel their nerves; they summon their cool or anger or faith or whatever it takes to pull them through, and they go on to live another day.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Live
  • Faith

• It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Liberty
  • Virtue
  • Grace

• What is it that renders death terrible? Sin. We must therefore fear sin, not death.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Sin

• Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Poverty
  • Sin
  • Shame

• There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will. They move to their terrible end as automatons move. Choice is taken from them, and conscience is either killed, or, if it lives at all, lives but to give rebellion its fascination, and disobedience its charm.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Passion

• Lords, I protest my soul is full of woe That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow. Come, mourn with me for what I do lament, And put sullen black incontinent. I'll make a voyage to the Holy Land To wash this blood off from my guilty hand. March sadly after. Grace my mournings here In weeping after this untimely bier.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Book
  • Soul
  • Black

• All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Nature
  • Sin
  • Merits

• I am going to learn to make bread tomorrow. So if you may imagine me with my sleeves rolled up, mixing flour, milk, saleratus, etc., with a deal of grace. I advise you if you dont know how to make the staff of life to learn with dispatch.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Learn
  • Imagine
  • Grace

• I've never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I've never seen a good drawing save a bad idea.

  

  Paul Conrad
  • Ideas
  • Hands
  • Drawing

• Our ancient experience confirms at every point that everything is linked together, everything is inseparable.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Experience
  • Together

• Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing, but God's grace will stop sin.

  

  Joseph Prince
  • Sin
  • Grace