Tony Evans Quotes

One of the major failures of the church is not a focus on building disciples but a focus on building members.

Tony Evans

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• A first date should be elegant. In comfortable surroundings. A place with excellent food, where you can talk easily and get to know each other.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Food
  • Know
  • Surroundings

• We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • May
  • Mother
  • Earth

• I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Thinking
  • Man
  • Eye

• Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Book
  • Pretty
  • Eyes

• To think that guys who grew up in the '60s would make a miniseries supporting the idea that Oswald acted alone is something I certainly wouldn't have predicted. But time and evidence can change the way we view things.

  

  Gary Goetzman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Change

• The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressions and that I should be converted with my whole heart to the Lord my God.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • God
  • Heart
  • Remember

• After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Children
  • Career
  • Small

• I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Technology
  • Compassion

• My husband is in charge of all phone, email and texting duties at home. He even has to turn on the TV and air conditioning because I'm so hopeless with technology.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Home
  • Technology
  • Air

• If you want to get along, go along.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Want
  • You
  • Go

• When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.

  

  Yash Chopra
  • College
  • Day
  • Ambition

• I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.

  

  Ted Stevens
  • Proud
  • Guilty
  • Senate

• It's fantastic to strive towards a nice life where you eat nice organic food and your children go to a nice school and you can afford nice clothes and nice perfume and the hypoallergenic make-up. But there's never a day goes by, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, that I don't think about where I'm from.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• The thing about Pablo is that he wasn't happy with what he had - just being the sixth richest man in the world. He wanted to be loved. He wanted to be accepted. He wanted to be President of Colombia; he wanted his kids to go to the same school as the Colombian elite. But he wouldn't be accepted by the elite.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • World
  • School
  • Kids

• On 'Glee,' the director can be like, 'Hey, your face is looking a little too intense here.' And they can show me the screen, and I can be like, 'I know exactly what to do here.'

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Know
  • Looking
  • Director

• Parvesh Cheena is a real treat for the ladies.

  

  Parvesh Cheena
  • Real
  • Treat
  • Real Treat

• Our elite believe in a new trinity of equality, democracy and diversity. Indeed, after the Cold War, we declared the spread of democracy worldwide to be our historic mission and national goal.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Believe
  • War
  • Democracy

• I was responsible to no one, I had no need mumble excuses or lies. I would become someone else and my metamorphosis would be so complete that no one I’d met over the past fifteen years would be able to recognize me. (116)

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Past
  • Lies
  • Excuses

• The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

  

  Euripides
  • Company
  • Righteous
  • Estate

• It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and, second, civil liberty.

  

  Josiah Strong
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Christian

• I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.

  

  J. Frank Dobie
  • Life
  • Good
  • Earth

• Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance of toil, and they abandon the slothful.

  

  John Milton
  • Men
  • Wealth
  • Pursue

• One of the major failures of the church is not a focus on building disciples but a focus on building members.

  

  Tony Evans
  • Church
  • Focus
  • Building