Ed Stetzer Quotes
A disciple who grows spiritually will have a growing desire to be a witness and reach out to those who are lost.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.
-
I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.
-
I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.
-
Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
-
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
-
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
-
Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.
-
Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
-
I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
-
I can understand the natural anxiety of readers when waiting for another installment of a favourite series, but I think it is much more important to get a book right than it is to have it appear on time.
-
Human nature is not simple and any classification that roughly divides men into good and bad, superior and inferior, slave and free, is and must be ludicrously untrue and universally dangerous as a permanent exhaustive classification.
-
People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
-
Through these fields of destructionBaptisms of fireI've witnessed your sufferingAs the battles raged higherAnd though they hurt me so badIn the fear and alarmYou did not desert meMy brothers in arms.
-
Tourette's is involuntary in that it is impossible not to do. And it's torture to know what you're doing and not be able to stop it.
-
You ask my wife or my two sons, and they'll tell you that I ain't free with the money.
-
Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.
-
Tim Burton's 'Sleepy Hollow' has got to be the most gorgeous, sumptuous, painterly movie ever made about multiple decapitations.
-
As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.
-
The mother-in-law is the centre of a family.
-
I never, never photograph someone getting high to sell clothes. I was called, at some point, the person responsible for "heroin chic". I didn't have anything to do with "heroin chic".
-
Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.
-
With friends, if you keep making an effort to reach out and you keep getting hurt, you eventually stop trying. But it's much harder to give up on family. Somewhere deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake over and over again.
-
The problem is that the media rarely discusses the real reasons behind why women leave their jobs. We hear a lot about the desire to be closer to the children, the love of crafting and gardening, and making food from scratch. But reasons like lack of maternity leave, lack of affordable day care, lack of job training, and unhappiness with the 24/7 work culture-well, those aren't getting very much airtime.
-
A disciple who grows spiritually will have a growing desire to be a witness and reach out to those who are lost.
