Michael Horton Quotes

Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism.

Michael Horton

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• I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Time
  • Together

• I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Time
  • May
  • Winning

• It was only after the Grimms published two editions primarily for adults that they changed their attitude and decided to produce a shorter edition for middle-class families. This led to Wilhelm's editing and censoring many of the tales.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Attitude
  • Two
  • Editing

• I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Country
  • Art
  • Parents

• What do we lose without wild animal acts at the circus? Absolutely nothing, except the opportunity to be haunted and heartbroken.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Opportunity
  • Animal
  • Circus

• Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen the world as a skater. And now? A lot of people in eastern Germany have lost jobs, rents went up, food costs went up, unemployment went to 20 percent. Freedom is good, but it is not easy.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Society
  • Growth
  • Panacea

• I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Up
  • Wall
  • Back

• We are not going to be the agency where large businesses can masquerade as a small business and get a contract. We are closing down on fraud, waste and abuse.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Business
  • Small
  • Down

• As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Girl
  • Fear
  • Nice

• Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Society
  • Negative
  • Even

• A different script calls for different things. It always takes me a long time to get to know the part, and know the logic behind the words. I have to be with the script for quite a long time before things start to fall into place, before they become part of the character.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Kind

• No one can advise or help you - no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Heart
  • Help
  • Die

• Once you've dissected a joke, you're about where you are when you've dissected a frog. It's dead.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• The enigma I will not explain – its 'dark saying' must be left unguessed, and I warn you that the apparent connection between the variations and the theme is often of the slightest texture.

  

  Edward Elgar
  • Dark
  • Connection

• What makes Reddit special is that people feel free to express themselves. Where we want to draw the line is where that feeling of being able to express oneself freely starts to infringe on someone feeling like they can express themselves.

  

  Alexis Ohanian
  • People
  • Free
  • Feeling

• Pray for divine guidance in your goal setting.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Goal
  • Pray
  • Guidance

• Liturgy, in truth, is an event by means of which we let ourselves be introduced into the expansive faith and prayer of the Church. This is the reason why the early Christians prayed facing east, in the direction of the rising sun, the symbol of the returning Christ.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Faith

• I grew up in the church, with traditional hymns, but at the same time I was beginning to listen to pop music, the mid-60s, The Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did. Then the hippy stuff like Pink Floyd started to raise questions about how I lived my life and the world in which I lived.

  

  Alan Green
  • Life
  • Music
  • Church

• Consider the problem of taking showers with Christians. They are, after all, constantly going on about the business of witnessing in the hopes of making converts to their God and church. Would you want to shower with such people? You never know when they might try to baptize you.

  

  Stanley Hauerwas
  • People
  • Trying
  • Problem

• Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism.

  

  Michael Horton
  • Church
  • Criticism
  • Morality