Benjamin L. Corey Quotes

I continued to find myself in a constant process of attempting to deconstruct values that were cultural and replace them with the legitimate teachings of Jesus - no matter how crazy that made me look to the world or Christians around me.

Benjamin L. Corey

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• I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes to important matters that have to be solved.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Important
  • Country
  • Think

• I'm the best in the world; thank you, Jesus, for that.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • World
  • Best
  • Jesus

• I do think Jesus would skip church on Sunday morning and instead visit the nursing homes and retirement homes where so many have abandoned their loved ones.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Church
  • Morning
  • Jesus

• All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Values

• I love to walk through the streets of Jesus Maria and Pueblo Libre. The Spanish colonial buildings are in bright colors, two stories high, with these intricate wooden, windowed balconies.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • High
  • Jesus
  • Walk

• Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Character
  • Jesus
  • Christ

• During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Up
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?

  

  Kanye West
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Sex

• I base jumped off the Jesus statue in Rio de Janeiro.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Jesus
  • Off
  • Statue

• As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn almost entirely from the progressive tradition, but as an affirmation of them.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • War
  • Child
  • Values

• There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Work
  • Values
  • Hard Work

• I find Jesus my confidant and companion, brother and savior; our relationship is intimate, vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Relationship
  • Jesus
  • Brother

• Do not worship me, I am not God. I'm only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Worship

• My grandma always had two gods: Jesus Christ and the United States of America. I was no different, and neither was anyone else I knew.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Different
  • America
  • Always

• The values of Islam are expressed by Muslims clearly. September 11 changed the world, and put Muslims on the spotlight.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • World
  • Values
  • September

• The laws of God given to mankind are embodied in the gospel plan, and the Church of Jesus Christ is made responsible for teaching these laws to the world.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • World
  • God
  • Church

• I think there are three main values which are fundamental: that Georgia will never be a criminal country, that Georgia will never return to corruption, and that Georgia will be independent.

  

  Vano Merabishvili
  • Country
  • Think
  • Independent

• Be. If I could be Jesus for just a day and have it my way, if I Could be perfect, like the light - Jesus for a night and have It my way - if I could be Atop my mountain a phenomenon - when I walk on water I am Complete, at peace and I'd make it so you'd be just like me.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Night
  • Light
  • Peace

• Well, life was tough, but at least I was able to live it out and I was able to face death and not be afraid. Well, now I'm ready to go to Heaven and be with Jesus, and...hey? Hey, what's this? Oh, God it feels like a man's DICK IN MY ASS! Oh, GOD!!! I'M DEAD!!! Oh, you mean life keeps on fucking you even after you're dead? Oh, it never ends! OH! OHHH!!!

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• The problem with Christians is they aren't as good as Jesus. But thank God most Muslims are better than Muhammad.

  

  Wafa Sultan
  • Good
  • God
  • Jesus

• Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.

  

  Joshua L. Liebman
  • Values
  • Maturity
  • Pleasures

• Persistence. Change doesn't happen overnight. You have to stay with it. Rosa Parks helped start the Civil Rights movement in earnest in 1955. Then it was nearly a decade until the Civil Rights Act was passed.

  

  Kabir Sehgal
  • Persistence

• It is a terrible magic in this world to ask for exactly the thing you want. Not least because to know exactly the thing you want and look it in the eye is a long, long labor.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • World
  • Want
  • Magic

• I continued to find myself in a constant process of attempting to deconstruct values that were cultural and replace them with the legitimate teachings of Jesus - no matter how crazy that made me look to the world or Christians around me.

  

  Benjamin L. Corey
  • Jesus
  • Values
  • Teachings