Charles Grandison Finney Quotes

The Church must take right ground in regard to politics... Politics are a part of a religion in such a country as this, and Christians must do their duty to the country as part of their duty to God... God will bless or curse this nation, according to the course Christians take in politics.

Charles Grandison Finney

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• I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Life
  • Me
  • Always

• I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Good
  • Game
  • Lost

• The way you wield your power is about using it to afford you opportunities that you wouldn't otherwise have. So I'm very creatively ambitious, and I just hope people notice it; that's all I want.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Power
  • Hope

• I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.

  

  Imelda May
  • Good
  • Music
  • Me

• 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

• Western man is schizophrenic.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Man
  • Western
  • Schizophrenic

• I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Independence

• That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • Success
  • Achieve

• Siva is one of the best writers in the industry, and 'Srimanthudu' is a great script.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Great
  • Best
  • Industry

• I was writing blogs before work, then I was writing at work, and then I started writing books on the weekend because you just have that sort of energy in your 20s; it's wonderful.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Energy

• As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • History
  • Books
  • Author

• Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Where
  • Temple
  • Shall

• I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Love
  • Crazy
  • Find

• All eyes are on you when you're modeling and acting, and I just didn't want the attention when I wasn't working. But as I've gotten older, I've become more comfortable with my body and am taking more fashion risks.

  

  Carey Lowell
  • Attention
  • Eyes
  • Fashion

• I think it's good to have surprises in fashion because we always see the same things.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Fashion
  • Same

• Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Identity

• Everyone thinks of the roaring twenties and associates it with decadence and flappers, female sexual liberation, the freedom of women to express themselves, the beginning of feminism. But it was also a time of huge, huge change.

  

  Billy Howle
  • Time
  • Women
  • Freedom

• 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

• The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is what it is, but I look at it as a challenge.

  

  Drew Brees
  • People
  • Life
  • Taken

• Friday was the last show of the year with ajrbrothers.. I did something like 75 gigs, they did way more. These guys are some of the hardest working, talented dudes I’ve ever met.

  

  Chris Berry AJR
  • Show
  • Guys
  • Hard Work

• The key to maturity is time and community. Discernment and godly wisdom develop in a community that spans generations. The church is called to be this place where the God's Spirit uses normal patterns and rhythms of the Christian life in a community, so that we may bear fruit like a well-watered tree. Despite common appearances, the church is the place where God's new creation is coming into existence and being sustained by the Spirit like a great vineyard.

  

  Michael Horton
  • Community
  • Church
  • Christian

• The problem of an eidos in history, hence, arises only when a Christian transcendental fulfillment becomes immanentized. Such an immanentist hypostasis of the eschaton, however, is a theoretical fallacy.

  

  Eric Voegelin
  • History
  • Problem
  • Christian

• Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I'm afraid, even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they were grown up, they were so used to quarrelling and making it up again that they got married so as to go on doing it more conveniently.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up

• The Church must take right ground in regard to politics... Politics are a part of a religion in such a country as this, and Christians must do their duty to the country as part of their duty to God... God will bless or curse this nation, according to the course Christians take in politics.

  

  Charles Grandison Finney
  • Country
  • Church
  • Christian