Nelson Searcy Quotes

Keeping a new church outwardly focused from the beginning is much easier than trying to refocus an inwardly concerned church.

Nelson Searcy

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• I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • People
  • Believe
  • Service

• Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Energy
  • Concept
  • Anywhere

• Even Apple, notorious for keeping a tight grip on its products, allows fierce competitors like Google, Amazon, Spotify, and Microsoft to offer their apps on its phones and tablets.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Fierce
  • Apple
  • Google

• I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Interesting
  • Doing
  • Author

• When I was signed, that was before the punk thing even happened.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Happened
  • Before
  • Punk

• In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.

  

  Major Taylor
  • My Own
  • Trail
  • Pioneer

• It's important that we start conversations about changing the culture of sexual harassment and discrimination in politics, state capitols, and our larger communities with an acknowledgment of the courage of so many women who have chosen to speak up and speak out.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Up
  • Important
  • Women

• I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Up
  • Wall
  • Back

• If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Opportunity
  • You
  • Voice

• In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.

  

  Albert Bushnell Hart

• I've known attractive airheads, and I've known ugly idiots.

  

  Neil Cavuto
  • Ugly

• In general, I think you can watch a movie in two different ways. One is the ethical point of view, one is the point of view of the story.

  

  Pierfrancesco Favino
  • Different
  • Movie

• I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. 'Lolita' is that book for me. Nabokov's love of wordplay, descriptive detail, artfully complex plots, and his themes of obsession and lost love, are inspiring.

  

  Marisha Pessl
  • Book
  • Lost

• I see myself more as an action director. All right, I do enjoy intense, bloodthirsty action but I like to blend and cross genres. I don't want to be too predictable.

  

  Neil Marshall
  • Action

• Everyone who comes to my show has their own struggles. There's so many people dealing with so many things; I love that I get to be part of their healing process by making them laugh.

  

  Anjelah Johnson
  • People
  • Healing

• Christians often want to hide behind the walls of the church, where we are comfortable, but sometimes we have to come out of the box.

  

  Cheryl James
  • Church

• What an unappealing responsibility that is to lumber any prospective lover with: the need to be a saviour, not simply an equal partner.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Responsibility
  • Partner

• I hate short hair on men - the 'real' man is something I don't know. My dad was always playing with hairbands, making rings, while the women were wearing jeans, white T-shirts and Converse. That was the uniform at home.

  

  Lou Doillon
  • Men
  • Women
  • Real

• The point I'm trying to make is that you go to church on Sunday. But the real Christ is out there in your life every day, whether it be the guy you help on the street, how you live your life, and your countenance that makes people want to be you.

  

  Jim Caviezel
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• There's pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don't get to know everybody, I don't get to go to their ballgame, I don't get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.

  

  Joel Osteen
  • Community
  • Church
  • Morning

• When the church finds its members falling into gross and scandalous sins, then it is time for the church to awake and cry to God for a Revival of Religion.

  

  Charles Grandison Finney
  • Fall
  • Church
  • Sin

• I'm not looking to shock anyone.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Looking
  • Anyone
  • Shock

• You're called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • Genius

• Keeping a new church outwardly focused from the beginning is much easier than trying to refocus an inwardly concerned church.

  

  Nelson Searcy
  • Church
  • Keeping
  • Refocus