William Henry Willimon Quotes

Preaching that is boring is preaching that talks first about us and then only tangentially about God. Preaching that is faithful is preaching that talks first about God and then only secondarily and derivatively talks about us. The God of Scripture is so much more interestingly than we are.

William Henry Willimon

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• I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Music
  • Giving

• When I got pregnant, I started singing again. It was my saving grace. I literally mean having this amazing human life, and our relationship in the sense of mother and child, redeemed my soul.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Soul

• You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.

  

  Maxwell Maltz

• My one thing is I continue to be interested and want to be a student. I don't want to be a master. When I'm learning something, I'm in my element.

  

  Chick Corea
  • Learning

• We're going to raise a lot of money to hopefully help rebuild some schools in the areas that have been devastated.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Money
  • Help
  • Schools

• Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • People
  • Habits
  • Canadian

• I’m not leaving,” Sam said, his eyes fixed on the boy he was holding. “Not until Disney Princess here apologizes, or his head comes off, one of the two.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Eyes
  • Boy
  • Leaving

• May those who witness the miracle be confirmed in their faith, and may you and your idols be forever disgraced!

  

  Saint Stephen
  • May
  • Faith
  • Forever

• We are not going to win because you have a new head coach, any more than you are going to fix a flat tire by changing the driver. We will win the minute all of us get rid of excuses as to why we can't win and stop wallowing in self-pity.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Why
  • Stop
  • Winning

• I remember that one time Carl Sagan was giving a talk, and he spelled out, in a kind of withering succession, these great theories of demotion that science has dealt us, all of the ways in which science is telling us we are not who we would like to believe we are. At the end of it, a young man came up to him and he said: "What do you give us in return? Now that you've taken everything from us? What meaning is left, if everything that I've been taught since I was a child turns out to be untrue?" Carl looked at him and said, Do something meaningful.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• True repentance begins with KNOWLEDGE of sin. It goes on to work SORROW for sin. It leads to CONFESSION of sin before God. It shows itself before a person by a thorough BREAKING OFF from sin. It results in producing a DEEP HATRED for all sin.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Work
  • God
  • True

• the idea of having someone that knows nothing about the floor or trading is a non-start.

  

  John Reed
  • Knows
  • Trading
  • Floor

• But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.

  

  Aristotle
  • Soul
  • Man
  • Happiness

• I remember playing the Royal Albert Hall, and a guy would say, 'Ten minutes to stage time,' and I'd get so nervous.

  

  Mike Joyce Buzzcocks
  • Playing
  • Nervous

• Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own, sometimes political, agendas.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Women
  • Political

• It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane, and men who love them are faithful to them even though they leave them for others. A man has only one virginity to lose in fighters, and if it is a lovely plane he loses it to, there his heart will ever be.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Horse

• The true method of knowledge is experiment.

  

  William Blake
  • Knowledge
  • Experiment
  • True Method

• Preaching that is boring is preaching that talks first about us and then only tangentially about God. Preaching that is faithful is preaching that talks first about God and then only secondarily and derivatively talks about us. The God of Scripture is so much more interestingly than we are.

  

  William Henry Willimon
  • Christianity
  • Scripture
  • Faithful