Arthur Tappan Pierson Quotes

God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are so few who actually give themselves unto intercession.

Arthur Tappan Pierson

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• Controversy
• Intercession

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• I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Concentration
  • Equate
  • Pow

• I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Together
  • Band
  • Year

• When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?

  

  Larry Wall
  • Time

• We always say, ‘Gisele’s so hot, how do we break her down?'

  

  Marc Jacobs

• From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to think that human life is anything great? It is not possible, he said. Such a man then will think that death also is no evil.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• I was brought up to believe I could achieve anything. My mother instilled in me the belief that there was always something great coming. For example, even though I'm afraid of flying, I always think the plane can't crash because there are so many better things still to come.

  

  Joe Bastianich
  • Up
  • Great
  • Believe

• I am in love with stories of underdogs.

  

  Ali Fazal

• For me, it's always just been about finding material that I think is creative and interesting and fun and something that can expand me and that I can hopefully do something with.

  

  Don Cheadle
  • Fun
  • Interesting

• My last race was at Le Mans in 2000, my first race was in 1959, so I dodged a lot of bullets along the way, I can tell you that.

  

  Mario Andretti

• The only one who can change the heart of man is the Lord. And that will make us want to make things fair for other people.

  

  Benjamin Watson
  • People
  • Heart

• In a world that is defined by what separates us, sharing a meal with someone from a different country, showing what we have in common with the people, it's very powerful and important.

  

  Andrew Zimmern
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• I might say something in Spanish; it all depends on how I'm feeling, what the situation is.

  

  Bobby Bonilla
  • Feeling
  • Spanish

• Evidence pointing to eagle hunting's antiquity comes from Scythian and other burial mounds of nomads who roamed the steppes 3,000 years ago and whose artifacts abound in eagle imagery.

  

  Adrienne Mayor
  • Hunting

• When I argue with reality, I lose-but only 100% of the time.

  

  Byron Katie
  • Time
  • Reality

• I foster a lot. Not humans, animals.

  

  Bellamy Young
  • Humans
  • Animals

• I've never heard of a situation where, because somebody had a particular political belief, they didn't get a part. I think it's a bit of a myth.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Thinking
  • Political
  • Belief

• A salesman called on my wife the other day and tried to sell her a freezer. You'll save a fortune on your food bills, he promised. I can't tell you how much you'll save. It'll be tremendous. Said my wife: I'm sure you're right, but we're already saving a fortune with our new car by not taking the bus. We're saving a fortune with our new washing machine by not sending out the laundry. We're saving a fortune with our new dishwasher by giving up the maid. The plain truth is that right now we just can't afford to save any more!

  

  Joey Bishop
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Giving

• If we believe in Jesus, it is not what we gain but what He pours through us that really counts. God’s purpose is not simply to make us beautiful, plump grapes, but to make us grapes so that He may squeeze the sweetness out of us.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Believe
  • May

• I'm not big on sequels; I've done them, but I like doing little things that have their own timelessness to them, classic type things, and then you go onto something new.

  

  John Travolta
  • Done
  • Classic
  • Little Things

• Shah Jahan, who provedan emperor to be shorter than a lover,who turned a grave into a templewho gave his beloved a place of Godand converted love into a prayer.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Prayer

• I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be for, and that we often purchase them at a great disadvantage, giving readi-monied actual happiness for a draft on the future, that may not be honoured.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Ladies
  • Strain
  • Moralizing

• God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are so few who actually give themselves unto intercession.

  

  Arthur Tappan Pierson
  • Prayer
  • Controversy
  • Intercession