Michael Horton Quotes

The goal of Christian mission is not success, but faithful witness; not power, but proclamation; not technique, but truth; not method, but message.

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• Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.

  

  Gary North
  • Long
  • Action
  • Christian

• I don't like getting people upset, so that's not my goal. But I like putting people in situations where how they respond says a lot about them.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • People
  • Goal
  • Upset

• Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Real
  • Happiness
  • Goal

• Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Goal
  • Being
  • Gentleman

• Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Fighting
  • Creating
  • Method

• I'm a Christian, but I don't believe in religion or anything like that.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Believe
  • Christian
  • Religion

• We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • People
  • Goal
  • Everything

• I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Christian

• I am a Christian.

  

  Jerry Falwell
  • Christian

• Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.

  

  Austin Farrer
  • Faith
  • Christian

• We are all human beings, and we all have insecurities, but it's about being healthy and happy with yourself. I'm not perfect, and I will indulge in pizza and sweets on occasion. The goal is to make the majority of your decisions good for your body. So listen to your body, and treat it like your temple.

  

  Jacqueline MacInnes Wood
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Perfect

• A Christian, a Deist, a Turk, and a Jew, have equal rights: they are men and brethren.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Men
  • Christian

• This is not a Christian versus Jewish thing. '(Jesus) came into the world and it knew him not.' Looking at Christ's crucifixion, I look first at my own culpability in that.

  

  Mel Gibson
  • World
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not self-evident: one must make this point clear again and again, in spite of English shallowpates.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Up
  • Christian
  • English

• I know that a Christian should be humble, but against the Pope I am going to be proud and say to him: 'You, Pope, I will not have you for my boss, for I am sure that my doctrine is divine.'

  

  Martin Luther
  • Proud
  • Christian
  • Humble

• In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Love
  • Christian
  • Marriage

• I've led a life of such structured discipline and always had a goal in mind of knowing what I was doing, from West Point to the Air Force combat, MIT, looking for new things to study and get involved in. And then I got into the space program, and how disciplined can you get?

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Space

• Of course it was a method of play you had to change because people get the idea once they have played against you.

  

  Jack Charlton
  • People
  • Change
  • Play

• The happiest people I know are those who have an obsession to the obedience of God.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • People
  • God
  • Christian

• In human history there has been a continuous and growing impulse toward the regeneration and transformation of humanity.

  

  Barbara Marx Hubbard
  • Growing
  • Humanity
  • Human History

• I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • People
  • Up
  • Book

• I believe that we must always be mindful of this one thing, whatever the trials and the tests ahead. The ultimate strength of our country and our cause will lie not in powerful weapons or infinite resources or boundless wealth, but will lie in the unity of our people.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Country

• My wife's Lisa Bonet. I'm a very lucky man.

  

  Jason Momoa
  • Wife

• The goal of Christian mission is not success, but faithful witness; not power, but proclamation; not technique, but truth; not method, but message.

  

  Michael Horton
  • Christian
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  • Messages