Sebastian Franck Quotes

To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word.

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• When I got the role in 'Homeland,' it really opened something up. Other people respected me more as an actor, doors were opened, and I understood for the first time that it wasn't personal. All that rejection wasn't personal.

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I was always going to make music, but I cleaned up my act a lot just to be a good dad and a husband. That sort of changed my career professionally, too.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Up
  • Good
  • Music

• 'Grease' was my Broadway debut. That was eye-opening. At the same time, it was very familiar. It was a Broadway show, but it's kind of the same as doing a show in Minnesota. It's the same type of rehearsal process. You are doing 8 shows a week, but I worked at a theatre in Minnesota that did 11 shows a week.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Time
  • Theatre
  • Week

• I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Up
  • Good
  • Want

• Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its vain Competitive excuse.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Air

• An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Faith
  • Fashion
  • Waves

• You can sway an audience if you win the women over. The gentlemen will follow 'cause they can be so foolish like that at times, they are easily led.

  

  Johnny Vegas
  • Women

• Just so you know, we're on the good side with y'all. We do not want this war, this violence...and we're ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Good
  • War
  • Violence

• The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • May
  • Prayer

• Study and keep your attention on whatever it is you're going into. Build a good team. The team needs to know what it's doing They need to be people you can trust and people you can work well with.

  

  Kamerion Wimbley
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why we're here - to evolve as human beings.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Why
  • Help

• Sometimes you have to kind of keep proving that you're improvising. That's the game, or the goal, of long-form TV improv, is that you have to kind of keep reminding and showing people that you're improvising, because they won't believe you really.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Believe
  • Long

• The point of Jesus' existence wasn't to lessen or diminish our appreciation of each other, but to expand our appreciation of each other by reminding us what lies within all of us, because Jesus was an example of the pinnacle of human evolution.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Jesus
  • Lies
  • Appreciation

• I'm sick of people saying I hate blacks, women, and gays. It's false and slanderous. Everyone who knows me knows I hate the Chinese.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Women
  • Hate

• I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • System
  • Glad
  • Laborer

• I'm looking way ahead. I'm looking at Connecticut.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Way
  • Looking
  • Connecticut

• Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Labour
  • Multiply
  • Exploits

• But as a philosopher said, one day after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, after all the scientific and technological achievements, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

  

  Sargent Shriver
  • God
  • Men
  • History

• It may be that these loan arrangements conform to the letter of the law, but they do not conform to the spirit of the law and to the principle of transparency on which it is based.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • May
  • Law
  • Spirit

• Life has loveliness to sell, Music like a curve of gold, Scent of pine trees in the rain, Eyes that love you, arms that hold, And for your spirit's still delight, Holy thoughts that star the night.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Life
  • Music
  • Spirit

• Now at last I have come to see what life is, Nothing is ever ended, everything only begun, And the brave victories that seem so splendid Are never really won.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Life
  • Victory
  • Brave

• To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word.

  

  Sebastian Franck
  • Spirit
  • Scripture
  • Letters