Alan Chambers Quotes

What sense do I make of it? People fall back into sin. There are all sorts of reasons why people go back.

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• A busybody's work is never done.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Work
  • Done
  • Never

• My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Job
  • Positive

• I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Character
  • Man
  • Action

• Let's create a legal system that can work.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Work
  • System
  • Legal

• Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Believe
  • Bad
  • Finding

• Although housing sales and starts have cooled to more typical levels, the housing market remains strong and sound. Without the expansion of homeownership and the strength of our housing market, our nation would not have the economic growth we are experiencing today.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Today
  • Strong
  • Growth

• Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mother

• I draft tweets, like, 20 times.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Like
  • Times
  • Draft

• No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.

  

  Barry White
  • Soul
  • Brother
  • Understand

• Christ told his disciples not to be anxious about tomorrow, but he never said not to consider tomorrow. Intelligent problem solving demands careful consideration of the future effects of present solutions.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Future
  • Present
  • Intelligent

• The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Freedom
  • Jesus
  • Slave

• Our salvation comes to us so easily because it cost God so much.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Salvation

• In the wild struggle for existance, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Hope
  • Struggle
  • Minds

• For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Rock
  • Star
  • Constitution

• I have a lot of glass in my house, and I remember saying as a joke once that I clean my stuff with Windex while my friends are over, but then I found myself actually doing that the other day. It's horrible.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • House

• These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • Music
  • Knowledge
  • Creator

• We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Sleep
  • Parent
  • Perfection

• It's a sin to bore people.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • People
  • Sin
  • Bore

• Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.

  

  John Milton
  • Sin
  • Surprise
  • Appetite

• Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than being... and consumerism is hardly the sin of the rich. The poor, driven by discontent and envy, may be as consumed by what they do not have as the rich are consumed by what they do have. The question is not, certainly not most importantly, a question about economics. It is first and foremost a cultural and moral problem requiring a cultural and moral remedy.

  

  Richard John Neuhaus
  • Simple
  • Problem
  • Moral

• A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up with. You've got to be seen as dark and slightly dangerous. But I'm not like that and I've realised that I don't need to put that on. People will buy the books whether they see a photo of you dressed in black or not.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• What sense do I make of it? People fall back into sin. There are all sorts of reasons why people go back.

  

  Alan Chambers
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