William Ames Quotes

Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God.

William Ames

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• Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Death
  • Die
  • Brave

• I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Inspired

• Everywhere in the universe, the periodic table has the same basic structure. Even if an alien civilization's table weren't plotted out in the castle-with-turrets shape we humans favor, their spiral or pyramidal or whatever-shaped periodic table would naturally pause after 118 elements.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Universe
  • Same
  • Alien

• We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Book
  • Stand
  • Shine

• I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Think
  • Athlete
  • Grace

• I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • People
  • American
  • Loyalty

• There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Enemy
  • Idea
  • Something

• I remember thinking, 'I can't act.' Pretending to be someone else is a terrifying thought. The thing was that, along with other people, I could create a whole world. I felt absolutely right directing.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?

  

  Ira Glass
  • Book
  • Moving
  • Listening

• I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Read
  • Just
  • Respond

• Stop bragging about your lack of sweat and effort in achieving your goals. Start bragging about how hard you work, how patient you've become.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Work
  • Stop
  • Effort

• It's not just the physical aspect of boxing, it's the whole fighter mentality that has been ingrained in me through the years as a competitive athlete. One of the hardest things you'll ever do is to box - to get into the ring and to face off with somebody whose whole goal is to knock you out, to hurt you, and to be able to fight back.

  

  Cara Castronuova
  • Hurt
  • Goal
  • Fight

• The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • God
  • Man
  • Stop

• I have 1.4 million followers on Twitter. I get very interesting, sometimes very diverse input from my followers. So it's sort of like this water cooler, digital water cooler, if you want to think about it, where you go and you listen to conversations that are happening that perhaps will shape your thinking.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Interesting

• There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • May
  • Write
  • Decide

• You don't only worry about the people who hate or resent you; in a way, you're more worried about the people who love you.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Love
  • Hate

• When I said I retired from basketball playing, I have retired. You will not see me play again. That is a promise.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Play
  • Promise
  • Said

• To be known by God is the highest goal of human existence.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Goal
  • Human

• My dad was always fascinated and amused by Trump, so I learned to be fascinated and amused by Trump.

  

  Willie Geist
  • Trump
  • Fascinated
  • Amused

• We don't have the Democrats doing a Fox News debate. They have decided they want to boycott Fox News, at least this election cycle. I don't see Hillary and Bernie Sanders doing a Fox News debate. And they should. We have great journalists on this network. I'm an opinion person. It wouldn't be me - that I think would do a great job. But if they're not going to put themselves in an environment like this, do you have to now reconsider, in other words, going forward, that maybe these liberal networks don't deserve the access to these candidates?

  

  Sean Hannity
  • Environment
  • Opinion
  • Election

• There really has been only one thing in my life that has made me feel complete, and that is the game of football. The ability to throw a football was my God-given talent. That was my blessing and my passion; that was my calling in live, and everything that I've accomplished has derived from that.

  

  Terry Bradshaw
  • Passion
  • Football
  • Talent

• We need voices that help us critique our social, political, and economic views through Kingdom lenses. The women and men who compose the global body of Christ can help challenge us in very important ways.

  

  Ed McBain
  • Help
  • Challenge
  • Christ

• Wal-mart started selling “Vampire Home Defense Kits”, including holy water, crosses, stakes, mallets, and a book of quick blessings to bar vampires from your door. The fact that these kits were generally useless didn't bother me nearly as much as the idea of holy water being sold at wal-mart.

  

  Molly Harper
  • Blessing
  • Useless
  • Including

• Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God.

  

  William Ames
  • Christ
  • Blessing
  • Faithful