Erwin W. Lutzer Quotes

God in His sovereign goodness often uses the painful and at times debilitating injury of a spear thrower to make us readier for His service. ... One thing you discover about spear throwers is that though it’s not necessary for them to be good, it’s essential for them to appear good.

Erwin W. Lutzer

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• I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Done
  • Hair
  • Often

• I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Good
  • School
  • Help

• This town was built on nepotism.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Built
  • Town
  • Nepotism

• One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Men
  • Failure
  • Problems

• I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • You
  • Diet
  • Fish

• I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Love
  • Interesting

• People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • People
  • World
  • Water

• It's tragic from how far we've come from 'Hope and Change'.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Hope
  • Change
  • How Far

• The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Up
  • Environment
  • Over

• Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • World
  • Mind
  • Power

• I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.

  

  Kat Graham
  • World
  • Different
  • Own

• I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Business
  • History
  • Grave

• Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • College
  • Stupidity
  • Sent

• I hate seaweed.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Hate
  • Seaweed

• I feel that the moment a date happens that it’s a social encounter that is potentially a sexual encounter. And the question of sex needs to be negotiated from the first moment on.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Question
  • Sex

• A single woman who supports herself is called a career woman, while a single man who supports himself is called a playboy…Ironically, a woman who commits and becomes financially dependent is considered more mature than a man who does not commit but is financially independent.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Career
  • Single
  • Independent

• Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • Live
  • Children
  • Ghetto

• Good Lord - if I couldn't multitask, I don't know what I'd do.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Good
  • Know
  • Lord

• When a faith-healer commands God to perform a miracle, in the absence of a prayer that says, 'Thy will be done,' it is, as far as I am concerned, the most rank form of arrogance . . . The faith-healer Bosworth once said that faith makes God act. If you follow that line of reasoning God is in His heaven, but Bosworth rules the world!

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • World
  • God
  • Done

• If a man is not to take advantage of the opportunities that present themselves to him, what is he to do, or what is he good for?

  

  Joseph Lister
  • Good
  • Opportunities
  • To Do

• Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'

  

  Haniel Long
  • People
  • Time
  • Vision

• People live in sleep, do everything in sleep, and do not know they are asleep.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • People
  • Live
  • Sleep

• God in His sovereign goodness often uses the painful and at times debilitating injury of a spear thrower to make us readier for His service. ... One thing you discover about spear throwers is that though it’s not necessary for them to be good, it’s essential for them to appear good.

  

  Erwin W. Lutzer
  • Good
  • God
  • Discover