William Joseph Burns Quotes
I am ready to burn out for God. I am ready to endure any hardship, if by any means I might save some. The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.
Quotes to Explore
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I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like the Anti-Nazi League. Everywhere I saw it, I fought prejudice.
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Southern conservatives care about government's moral stance but don't mind when it spends freely on behalf of their constituents. Western conservatives, by contrast, are soft-libertarians who want government out of people's way on principle.
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The sin of fallen man is this: Man seeks the benefits of God while at the same time fleeing from God Himself.
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If God did not act first, no one would be saved.
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Pray for divine guidance in your goal setting.
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We had two long drives there that we didn't finish well in the second half, our guys felt like defensively, ... We gave up four big plays, which resulted in a lot of yardage there.
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As for the blood and the head business, the blood and the head work together and what is not first in the blood can sometimes reach it by going first through the head and what is wrong in the blood can sometimes be tempered by the head.
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To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to "know" is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do.
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I wouldn't describe myself as a do-gooder. That's really more my wife. I'm kind of just the obsessed guy who's been writing and making movies since I was a little kid, just in a room and make it.
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I read the most extravagant things about people who suffer and depress because of things written about them.
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It's always weird being the only white person in a group. It feels like everyone's looking to me for guidance.
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The camera lies all the time -- lies 24 times/second.
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I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.
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Nothing outside the will can hinder or harm the will; it can only harm itself. If then we accept this, and, when things go amiss, are inclined to blame ourselves, remembering that judgment alone can disturb our peace and constancy, I swear to you by all the gods that we have made progress.
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My instinct is to protect my children from pain. But adversity is often the thing that gives us character and backbone. It's always been a struggle for me to back off and let my children go through difficult experiences.
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To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages.
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The true artist does not create art as an end in itself; he creates art for human beings. Humanity is the goal.
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American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.
