Arthur W. Pink Quotes

Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.

Arthur W. Pink

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• I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Work
  • Want
  • Capitalism

• The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Great
  • Business
  • Lesson

• I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Life
  • Look
  • Accomplishment

• I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Victory
  • Lose
  • Underdog

• The world I want to live in is a world where everybody is a bit more uncertain about their arguments and is a bit more open to other people's arguments. I think that we can engage ideas without ad hominem attacks.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Live
  • Day
  • Questions

• Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• I got to get your presence Let's make it known I think you're just so pleasant I would like you for my own

  

  Zooey Deschanel

• Chefs aren't celebrities: they're chefs.

  

  Elton John

• The impulse patterns which carried creatures star to star were almost instantaneous, no matter what the distance.He stood and thought about it and it still was hard, he admitted to himself, for a person to believe.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Believe
  • Star
  • Distance

• Though there were over 200 policemen standing around, none of them made a move to grab him.

  

  Al Sharpton

• While the hippocampus itself doesn't store memories, it serves to triage our experiences based upon their survival significance.

  

  David Perlmutter
  • Memories
  • Survival

• I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• Law enforcement agents need to be vetted more thoroughly and psychologically and emotionally to see who they are, if they're really built for fairness in all communities.

  

  Lynn Whitfield
  • Law

• I would say being deeply involved in the art world would help keep a young artist on track. Doing what you love, so that your focus is your artistry.

  

  Jada Pinkett Smith
  • World
  • Art
  • Help

• I loved living in Hollywood - and the weather there was just fantastic - but there is something about rural England, and especially Suffolk and Norfolk, that pulls at my heartstrings.

  

  Amanda Donohoe

• I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Water

• New Year's resolutions often fail because toxic emotions and experiences from our past can sabotage us or keep us stuck with the same old thoughts, patterns and regrets.

  

  Debbie Ford
  • Past
  • Thoughts

• Whenever I come out with a hit record, they'll say, 'Ah, that's because of R. Kelly. Oh, it's because of Ashanti. Oh, he's lucky.'

  

  Fat Joe
  • Say
  • Lucky
  • Oh

• When writers don't know what to do with a character, they build up the supporting cast and universe to kind of hide that fact. After a while, you can no longer see the character for the underbrush. When that happens, you need to bring out the weed-whacker to clear some of that away so you can focus on the main character.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • Character
  • Universe

• Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.

  

  Arthur W. Pink
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Dependency