Emil Brunner Quotes

The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning. Where there is no mission there is no Church; and where there is neither Church nor mission, there is no faith.

Emil Brunner

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• You go where you think it's good for your work and your soul to go. I need to go someplace where I am reminded about why I wanted to act in the first place, and for me, that's the theater.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Why

• Americans want to believe that we are a nation of laws, and no one is above them, including the president. Mr. Trump's and his associates' actions during his campaign and during his brief time in office are extremely troubling.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Want

• I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • School
  • Power
  • Sun

• If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Think
  • End

• Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Men
  • Society
  • Military

• I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • Women
  • Mother

• I think I fall into a lot of cracks in terms of I'm too something. I'm too this, I'm too that. And my music has never really had a home. I've been this floating alternative. I'm too mainstream for alternative. I'm too alternative for mainstream. And I'm just kind of wandering.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Music
  • Home
  • Think

• All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Soul
  • Small
  • Worthwhile

• People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • People
  • God

• I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on number theory and mathematical principles. I decided to use those principles and designed a work that is encoded.

  

  James Sanborn
  • Time
  • Work
  • Science

• Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

  

  Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
  • Creativity

• Before doing my first open mic, I was sitting in the back watching all these comedians banter back and forth and fire jokes and up each other, and I thought, 'This is where I wanna be.'

  

  Patton Oswalt
  • Up
  • Fire

• I don't consider myself a social entrepreneur, but I'm thrilled to be doing good, if that's what I'm doing.

  

  Perry Chen
  • Good
  • Entrepreneur

• I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.

  

  Alexander Brome

• 'In-between' is sort of - an animator does the key poses. He'll do extremes, you know, like a character reaching out for a glass of water and then another one of him drinking. And the in-betweener has to do all the drawings that goes between those two. You know it could be 12, 23 whatever in-betweens.

  

  Pete Docter
  • Character
  • Water
  • Drinking

• I think there should be a law that would allow the Oireachtas to take pensions away from people. That would go for corrupt politicians; it would go for public servants who failed miserably or were incompetent.

  

  Leo Varadkar
  • People
  • Law

• Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

  

  Adlai E. Stevenson
  • Time
  • Men
  • Age

• I think Jim got screwed. I think Jim Bakker would have been a great preacher. Jim Bakker was very good at what he did.

  

  Jessica Hahn
  • Good
  • Great

• When I started in the business in 1999 and 2000, we had companies that were going public in two, three or four years.

  

  David Sze
  • Business

• Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.

  

  Linton Kwesi Johnson

• The Intelligence Community Assessment concluded first that President Putin directed and influenced a campaign to erode the faith and confidence of the American people in our presidential election process. Second, that he did so to demean Secretary Clinton, and third, that he sought to advantage Mr. Trump.

  

  James R. Clapper
  • People
  • American
  • Faith

• Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Nature
  • Pride
  • Glory

• The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning. Where there is no mission there is no Church; and where there is neither Church nor mission, there is no faith.

  

  Emil Brunner
  • Faith
  • Church
  • Mission