Carl F. H. Henry (Carl Ferdinand Howard Henry) Quotes

The whole secret of abundant living can be summed up on this sentence: 'Not your responsibility but your response to God's ability'.

Carl F. H. Henry

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• Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • School
  • Name
  • Catholic

• It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • People
  • Why
  • Sound

• The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Peace
  • Sorry
  • Been

• There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • People
  • Word
  • Interview

• The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • World
  • Political
  • Serious

• For Gore 2000, I was a formal campaign adviser: contrary to RNC mythology, my brief was not 'wardrobe,' but rather policy on women's issues, and messaging. I was also married to a Clinton speechwriter, and observed the message decision-making process from the perspective of a spouse.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Women
  • Decision
  • Perspective

• If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Political

• What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Character
  • Happy
  • Man

• Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Think
  • Want
  • Strong

• I feel that being an actor is a front-row seat into seeing how everybody else makes their movies. Basically, being in the trenches for ten years is like a college-level course in filmmaking if not more. It feels like every director I work with and every set that I visit as an actor, I see someone else's definition of filmmaking.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Work
  • College
  • Movies

• Film is a window to the real world but a lie that makes you believe the unbelievable.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • World
  • Believe
  • Real

• I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Love
  • Myself

• The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Failure
  • Folly
  • Pigs

• Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • World
  • May

• My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.

  

  Aaron Yoo
  • Time
  • Same
  • Genius

• As President Bush just said, a great nation doesn’t shy from the truth. It strengthens us. It emboldens us. It should fortify us.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Truth

• In post offices throughout the United States, Selective Service posters reading 'A Man's Gotta Do What A Man's Gotta Do remind men that only they must register for the draft. If the Post Office had a poster saying 'A Jew's Gotta Do What A Jew's Gotta Do...' or if 'A Woman's Gotta Do...' were written across the body of a pregnant woman...

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Reading
  • Service

• I think books are chiefly responsible for my dogged self determined efforts to write; books & verisimilitude; I like to describe things.

  

  Marianne Moore

• THE TRAIN came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.

  

  Yasunari Kawabata
  • Long
  • Country
  • Snow

• The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Jesus
  • Birth
  • Untrue

• Mentorship is an incredibly huge responsibility. And you need to choose your mentors carefully, just like mentors choose their apprentices carefully. There has to be trust there, on a very deep level.

  

  Jimmy Chin
  • Responsibility
  • Trust
  • Deep

• James Baldwin had an unrivaled understanding of politics and history and, above all, the human condition. His prose is laser sharp. His onslaught is massive and leaves no room for response. Every sentence is an immediate cocked grenade. You pick it up, then realize that it is too late. It just blows up in your face. And yet he still managed to stay human, tender, accessible.

  

  Raoul Peck
  • Understanding
  • Realizing
  • Response

• You have to be tough-skinned and willing to accept criticism, and at the same time, just try to do music that you like and you are proud of and not just whatever you think it's going to take to get you on the radio.

  

  Alan Jackson
  • Time
  • Music
  • Proud

• The whole secret of abundant living can be summed up on this sentence: 'Not your responsibility but your response to God's ability'.

  

  Carl F. H. Henry
  • Responsibility
  • Secret
  • Ability