Christopher West Quotes
Holiness is not first a matter of doing anything. It is first and foremost a matter of letting it be done. Holiness is to conceive the love of God within and to bring it forth to the world.
Quotes to Explore
-
We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
-
To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
-
I think there are a very few pro-lifers who would say that a zygote in a petri dish is the equivalent of you or me; it's just younger. If you can say that without laughing, maybe you are a true pro-lifer. But I think most people are able or willing to make distinctions that show they maybe don't quite believe that.
-
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
-
The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
-
The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
-
I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.
-
The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
-
I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.
-
One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.
-
It will all come back - the wasted splendor, The heart's lost youth like a breaking flower, The dauntless dare, and the wistful, tender Touch of the April hour.
-
After boarding school in Switzerland, at, like, 14 or 15, my life clicked, and I just realized, 'I don't want to be like anyone around me at my school. I don't think the world revolves around money.'
-
I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.
-
I love traveling, I love waking up in a new city every day.
-
I'm a multidimensional person and that's the freedom of fashion: that you're able to reinvent yourself through how you dress and how you cut your hair or whatever.
-
I would love to close my eyes and see myself with my girlfriend when we're 99 years old and I have a pipe and she's knitting a sweater, and I hope that's the way it goes. I think it's a challenge every day.
-
I can be stupid in my lyrics or say whatever I want without having to worry about anybody else's feeling or anybody being embarrassed by it or anything like that.
-
Every quality I despise in George Bush is a quality I despise in myself. He is my worst self realized.
-
If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say.
-
The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws.
-
The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.
-
I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places.
-
Holiness is not first a matter of doing anything. It is first and foremost a matter of letting it be done. Holiness is to conceive the love of God within and to bring it forth to the world.
