S. D Gordon Quotes

Prayer is repeating the victor's name (Jesus) into the ears of Satan and insisting on his retreat.

S. D Gordon

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• After Brown, I went to Duke, to a Ph.D. program in American literature. My dad's an English professor. After a year there, I was like, 'Jesus. I don't want to do this. I don't want to be in the library.' So I pulled the ripcord, and that was it.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • American
  • Dad
  • Jesus

• Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Prayer

• Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Character
  • Jesus
  • Christ

• I base jumped off the Jesus statue in Rio de Janeiro.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Jesus
  • Off
  • Statue

• Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Prayer
  • Self
  • Strength

• Do not worship me, I am not God. I'm only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Worship

• The laws of God given to mankind are embodied in the gospel plan, and the Church of Jesus Christ is made responsible for teaching these laws to the world.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • World
  • God
  • Church

• Well, the Empire State was about 40' high in the studio. King Kong was a little model about 2' high, and the scenery that he worked in was in proportion to his size.

  

  Fay Wray
  • High
  • Model
  • King

• Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Man
  • Prayer
  • Lips

• There was a time when I just felt like a superwoman. I was like, 'I got Jesus! I ain't afraid!' But, the truth is, I want to do things right, and sometimes I am afraid that I'm not good enough or that I'm not going to handle something right.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Time
  • Good
  • Truth

• Are you there? Say a prayer for the pretender who started out so young and strong only to surrender

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Strong
  • Prayer

• Jesus said the meek would inherit the earth, but so far all we've gotten is Minnesota and North Dakota.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Earth
  • Jesus

• At no point do the resurrection narratives in the four Gospels say, 'Jesus has been raised, therefore we are all going to heaven.' It says that Christ is coming here, to join together the heavens and the Earth in an act of new creation.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Together
  • Earth
  • Jesus

• I miss the lack of melody in current music as well. I mean, a lot of people think I'm crazy for liking Creed and I like them purely because they sing! I mean, the singer of Creed sings like the guy from Pearl Jam, very close kind of voice. But I like the fact that Creed sing. I don't care if they're a Bible band, Satan band…

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • People
  • Music
  • Guy

• We'll always be safe in Jesus Christ if we place our faith in the Lord.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Faith
  • Jesus

• 'My face and your faces shall not be masked; our hand shall hold neither sword nor sceptre, and our subjects shall love us in peace and shall not be in fear of us.' Thus spoke Jesus, and unto all the kingdoms of the earth I was blinded, and unto all the cities of walls and towers; and it was in my heart to follow the Master to His kingdom.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Heart
  • Earth
  • Fear

• She certainly gave me what I've been losing. Youth's intensity, its craving, the soul-priapism, huge lust and fierce to her, clamour for her to realize with me that mightiest marriage-dream, that Sacrament of Satan that may be consummated only beneath Night's dome, in utmost silence, because its Elements are not symbols of things, but They themselves.

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • May
  • She
  • Soul

• I tell you I cannot bear it! I shall do something desperate if this life is not changed soon. It gets worse and worse, and I often feel as if I'd gladly sell my soul to Satan for a year of freedom.

  

  Louisa May Alcott
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Freedom

• I never get the girl - I always die. That is the catch with playing bad. I'm actually a very romantic person, and I would like to play in a love story. As long as it doesn't get too sweet. That's not me.

  

  Michael Wincott
  • Story
  • Sweet
  • Persons

• Running anywhere, blindly, hating the echo of her footsteps in the silence of the empty streets, Florentine fled from her own fear, fled from herself.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Fear
  • Running
  • Silence

• I often think of those marvelous weeks spent in the Waddington Range in 1950. 2 new routes on the northern side of the peak and the 3rd ascent of the mountain as well. Waddington is one of the more beautiful peaks in all of Canada and it's only 175 miles north of Vancouver. B.C.!!

  

  Allen Steck
  • Beautiful
  • Peaks
  • Waddington

• This Thursday, Barack Obama is gonna give his acceptance speech, and reportedly it's going to include performances by Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen. Yeah. And they say Obama's not black enough!

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Black
  • Acceptance
  • Speech

• Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it.

  

  Eben Alexander
  • Heart
  • Laughter
  • Irony

• Prayer is repeating the victor's name (Jesus) into the ears of Satan and insisting on his retreat.

  

  S. D Gordon
  • Jesus
  • Prayer
  • Satan