Andrew Murray Quotes

God has a plan for His Church upon earth. But alas! we too often make our plan, and we think that we know what ought to be done. We ask God first to bless our feeble efforts, instead of absolutely refusing to go unless God go before us.

Andrew Murray

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• If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • World
  • Best

• If people think I look good, it's the make-up.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I expect a tough, hard fight. Liam Smith is coming to win.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Win
  • Fight
  • Tough

• I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Good
  • Music
  • Value

• Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Should
  • Popular

• Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • Love
  • Better
  • For Her

• There are three or four places in the country where people think of fashion: One is L.A., obviously. Another is New York. And I think Atlanta has to be in the top five cities where fashion is very big.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Country
  • Fashion

• It's a songwriter's dream to have a song recorded and run up the charts.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Up
  • Song
  • Dream

• The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Country
  • Home
  • Plants

• Tempus edax rerum.

  

  Ovid

• The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school in the 1960s may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • School
  • May

• Pride is the emotional reward of achievement. It is not a vice to be overcome but a virtue to be attained.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Emotional
  • Pride
  • Achievement

• Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

  

  Constance Baker Motley
  • Racism

• On 'City Music', I wanted there to be grit, and I wanted it to be loose, and I wanted there to be mistakes.

  

  Kevin Morby
  • Music
  • City
  • Grit

• I'm a goofball, and I have this huge personality, and I used to try to hide that. I used to try to kind of dim my light.

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • Light
  • Personality

• Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.

  

  Bill Joy

• I hope when I'm on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive.

  

  Christopher Buckley
  • People
  • Hope

• I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categorized human experience.

  

  Alice McDermott
  • Experience
  • Literature

• I love you madly, irrationally, infinitely.

  

  Boris Pasternak

• Love does not aim simply at the conscious good of the beloved object: it is not satisfied without perfect loyalty of heart; it aims at its own completeness.

  

  George Eliot
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Perfect

• Science was tearing through the 'fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs' to behold a new cosmos, in which our Earth is merely an 'eccentric speck' - a world of evolution 'and unchanging causation'. It invited new ways of thinking. It demanded a new rationale for belief. With science's truths the only accessible ones, 'blind faith' was no longer admirable but 'the one unpardonable sin'.

  

  Adrian Desmond
  • World
  • Earth
  • Belief

• You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you've got to love him.

  

  Andy Garcia
  • Guy

• Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Useless
  • Needful
  • Gamin

• God has a plan for His Church upon earth. But alas! we too often make our plan, and we think that we know what ought to be done. We ask God first to bless our feeble efforts, instead of absolutely refusing to go unless God go before us.

  

  Andrew Murray
  • Earth
  • Church
  • Effort