Adoniram Judson Gordon Quotes

Doctrine is the frame-work of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a holy life. It is only the lean creature whose bones become offensive.

Adoniram Judson Gordon

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• When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Him

• I grew up riding horses since I was eight. I rode English style and competed every weekend. I had two horses, Scout and Camille, and they were my babies. It taught me a lot about responsibility and commitment. I hope horses will always be in my life.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hope

• Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Up
  • Back

• The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Life
  • Morning
  • Quality

• New experiences give you new perspectives on life.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Life
  • You
  • Experiences

• I've only kept one award in my whole life, and it's the coolest thing ever. Mizuno gave me a samurai sword for winning the Cy Young. It's awesome.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Life
  • Me
  • Winning

• Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you. When you occupy it, step into it consciously, you live it.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Life
  • Live
  • Step

• As an actor, you spend a lot of your life in hotel rooms.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Life
  • Actor
  • Hotel

• When I was 21, I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for 'The Simpsons' who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Life
  • Religious
  • Editor

• The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Commitment

• From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn't think about science too much.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Life
  • Up
  • Age

• When someone turns to me and addresses me as 'our Queen', that word means a lot to me because it makes me feel that they know my life is theirs. My joy is their joy. My worries are their worries. If the word 'queen' means something to me, 'our queen' means everything to me.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • Joy

• Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Past

• I come to fight because I love to fight. It's my life.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Life

• Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

  

  James A. Garfield
  • People
  • Life
  • Soul

• Acting is so exciting to me. It's a thrill; otherwise I wouldn't do it. Not to be hokey, but I think life is definitely worth living, whether you're working or not. For an actor, the character is the thing... it doesn't matter what medium you're in. as long as you have something to do.

  

  Elizabeth Mitchell
  • Life
  • Long
  • Character

• If we truly value humanity, life, and all that it represents in its highest form, then we need to do all that we can to promote quality of life over the quantity of life.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Value

• One of the most constant and sustaining truths of my life has been this: I love the library.

  

  Deb Caletti
  • Life
  • Library

• Obviously, my life and my job in 2010 is very different from Peggy's experience in the 1960s. I exist in a world that enjoys more equality between men and women. But I don't take any of that into my performance. I just want to play the character as who she is as an individual - scene to scene.

  

  Elisabeth Moss
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• Trouble comes not because we have taken any wrong step but because we are in a complex and contradictory world.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • World
  • Taken
  • Steps

• To the casual observer, the Dropbox demo video looked like a normal product demonstration, but we put in about a dozen Easter eggs that were tailored for the Digg audience. References to Tay Zonday and 'Chocolate Rain' and allusions to 'Office Space' and 'XKCD.' It was a tongue-in-cheek nod to that crowd, and it kicked off a chain reaction.

  

  Drew Houston
  • Space
  • Rain
  • Chocolate

• [As] authorities "over" us are removed, as we wobble out on our own, the question of whether to be or not to be arises with real relevance for the first time, since the burden of being is felt most fully by the self-determining self.

  

  William H. Gass
  • Time
  • Real
  • Authority

• Doctrine is the frame-work of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a holy life. It is only the lean creature whose bones become offensive.

  

  Adoniram Judson Gordon
  • Life
  • Doctrine
  • Clothed