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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• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 devastation of the ancient Christian community in Iraq is well known.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Community
  • Christian

• There are three things that I'm addicted to when it comes to entertainment. In no particular order, One, I'm addicted to the cheer moment. 'Librarians' has plenty of them. Next, I feel that life is hard, and I want my entertainment fun, and 'Librarians' is fun as a Christmas party. And third, I like to be moved.

  

  Dean Devlin
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Party

• In 1984, Jim Koch used his family's lager recipe to start Boston Beer Company, which has since become the largest 'craft' brewer in the country. He brews Samuel Adams, a rich lager named after the American revolutionary that comes with the tagline, 'Take pride in your beer.'

  

  Elizabeth Flock
  • Country
  • Family
  • American

• Everyone desires to laugh sometimes, and I want to make that available.

  

  Lydia Millet

• I love 'Love Actually' and particularly the story with Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson. I think it's possibly the best exploration of infidelity that's ever been done because it really feels accurate and real.

  

  John Requa
  • Real
  • Done

• For years I thought my assignment or the Church's assignment was to articulate the Gospel and nothing more. Now I believe that if we don't support the verbal expression of the Gospel with physical demonstration of compassion, we are not imitating Jesus.

  

  Max Lucado
  • Believe
  • Support
  • Church

• In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

  

  James Broughton
  • World
  • Real
  • Poetry

• 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