Adoniram Judson Gordon Quotes

The Holy Spirit, not the pope, is the vicar of Christ on earth.

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• The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Suffering
  • Human
  • See

• Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Up
  • Together
  • Emotions

• Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Shoes
  • Year
  • White

• 'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Real
  • Job
  • Month

• Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
  • Watching
  • Washington

• I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.

  

  Patrick White
  • Writing
  • Door
  • Habit

• I think that designers have an incredibly broad creative repertoire. They solve. They create images of perfection for any number of clients. I could never do that. I'm my client. That's the difference between an artist and a designer; it's a client relationship.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Relationship
  • Perfection

• Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Women
  • Society
  • Sight

• I suppose I'd always been attracted to commitment-phobes because some part of me felt unlovable. It was a lot easier to fall for a guy who I knew, on some level, wouldn't fall in love with me. There was nothing to risk. The real risk would be to finally be vulnerable to love.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Guy
  • Risk
  • Commitment

• The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Age
  • Education

• Writing obscures language ; it is not a guise for language but a disguise.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Writing

• Desirelessness towards the seen and the unseen gives the consciousness of mastery.

  

  Patanjali

• Men and women aren't really dogs: they only look like it and behave like it. Somewhere inside there is a great chagrin and a gnawing discontent.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• Today is not such a tremendous day for us Rhodesians. We made our decision to become a Republic quite a long while ago, and this is simply the process of formalizing it. Our Independence Day is the great day. Rhodesia did not want to seize independence from Britain. It was forced upon us.

  

  Ian Smith
  • Great
  • Long
  • Today

• Nationalism and racism, to take two examples, are the culturally nurtured outgrowths of simple tribalism.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Simple
  • Racism

• I tell my staff, 'Give me your best, and then go home and live your life.' I've never asked anyone to work harder, but I've told plenty that they needed rest.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• I have always been interested in religion, especially in forms of ecstatic religion, where people are touched directly by the Spirit and go completely out of themselves.

  

  Lee Smith
  • People

• Oh, in France you can't defame an idea, only a person.

  

  Pierre Dukan

• In the twentieth century, men -- all of us -- find themselves compelled to commit or condone evil for the sake of preventing an evil believed to be greater. And the tragedy is that we do not know whether the evil we condone will not in the end be greater than the evil we seek to avert-- or be identified with.

  

  Emil Fackenheim
  • Evil
  • Believed
  • Preventing

• I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It needs not a map, but a history, and if I don't stop writing that history at some quite arbitrary point, there's no reason why I should ever stop.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Writing
  • Why
  • History

• If, when I leave this earth, I'm remembered for 'Fargo,' so be it. But I think old Marge Gunderson is gonna get a run for her money with Olive Kittredge.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Money
  • Think
  • Earth

• The Holy Spirit, not the pope, is the vicar of Christ on earth.

  

  Adoniram Judson Gordon
  • Earth
  • Holy Spirit
  • Vicar