Samuel Rutherford (Rev Prof Samuel Rutherford) Quotes

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Samuel Rutherford

• Faith
• Sleep
• Bed

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Trying
  • Day
  • Myself

• Researchers have been looking for biomarkers of age for a long time and have failed. People sell tests out there to measure your biological age, and none of them work. There's no evidence that you can measure biological age with any reliability.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • You
  • Always
  • Young

• The U.N. might not be the most luxurious place to work, but it certainly is one of the most important places in the world.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Work
  • Important

• Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Why
  • Want
  • Powerful

• Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Men
  • Game
  • Simple

• I love my husband very much. I knew it was real true love because I felt like I could be myself around that person. Your true, true innermost authentic self, the stuff you don't let anyone else see, if you can be that way with that person, I think that that's real love.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Person
  • Husband
  • Felt

• Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Love
  • Business
  • Shaving

• I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Fun
  • Worry

• When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Respect
  • Yourself
  • Content

• When discussing things with someone, it is best to speak appropriately about whatever the subject may be. No matter how good what you are saying might be, it will dampen the conversation if it is irrelevant.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Good
  • May

• The customer is usually wrong; but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so.

  

  Aleister Crowley

• It was virtually impossible to think of a sentence that made a positive use of that dreadful word ‘enough’, let alone one that started raving about ‘nothing’.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Alone
  • Positive

• I had my appendix removed in my 20s. I was in the middle of a play with Helen Mirren at the Royal Court Theatre, a fabulous career break. Then two weeks in I began suffering the most horrendous pain and had to pull out. Sadly, by the time I'd recovered, the show's run had ended.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Time
  • Career
  • Pain

• I grew up with a concept of cinema as a directorial thing, meaning the director is allowed to sail the ship. Not a dictatorial thing.

  

  Luca Guadagnino
  • Up

• One of my favorite directors is Clint Eastwood, and I hear about the way he works, and I think I'm of a similar style. Very few takes - you get what you take, and you move on. It's very much a job and work.

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • Work
  • Job
  • Style

• I have a background in erotic dancing, but that's mostly just - it's not professional, it's just amateur.

  

  Matt McGorry
  • Professional

• I've got 'trust' tattooed on me, and I have a tattoo on my finger that's for my parents.

  

  Anne-Marie
  • Parents
  • Trust
  • Tattoo

• Because fossil fuels are not only a finite resource but hazardous to the environment, it is imperative that we diversify the resources used in generating electricity.

  

  Pete Gallego
  • Environment

• People crave comfort, people crave connection, people crave community.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Community
  • Connection

• 'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Sleep
  • Study
  • Curiosity

• The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Sleep
  • Prayer

• My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

  

  Samuel Rutherford
  • Faith
  • Sleep
  • Bed