Erwin W. Lutzer Quotes

There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity. It takes time to be holy.

Erwin W. Lutzer

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• What is a Muslim neighborhood? How many Muslims have to be in a neighborhood before it becomes worthy of checking papers and kicking in the doors of homes and businesses?

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Doors
  • Before
  • Neighborhood

• The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in film classes and had been auditioning for T.V. and movie roles since I was in my late teens. My career has been slow and steady, and I kind of like it that way.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • School
  • Movie
  • Career

• Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.

  

  Anton Chekhov

• The game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate.

  

  Ben Crenshaw
  • Game

• During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult.

  

  Bianca Jagger
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Divorce

• When we see a lack of leadership coming from the White House, that's what brings leaders in Turkey to attack Israel the way they do. When we see a lack of leadership coming from the White House, that's why we see the leader of Iran... continuing to build the nuclear reactors.

  

  Danny Danon
  • Why
  • House
  • Leadership

• I hope there is a place for me in the country landscape, but I'm not too precious about it, either.

  

  Maren Morris
  • Country
  • Hope

• No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

  

  Keith Miller
  • Relationship
  • Gentleman

• Television programming is the number one topic on Twitter, and dozens of start-ups in the social space are linking second-screen experiences. People no longer need to sit on the same couch to enjoy a show together.

  

  Jay Samit
  • People
  • Together
  • Space

• There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

  

  Kenny Rogers
  • Wisdom

• It is an extreme perversion of capitalism if you can trade in something before you have even paid for it.

  

  James Dyson

• In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have okay teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already.

  

  John Corbett
  • Good
  • Great
  • Different

• Google likely never cared if Google+ 'won' as a competitor to Facebook (though if it did, that would have been a nice bonus). All that mattered, in the end, was whether Plus became the connective tissue between all of Google's formerly scattered services. And in a few short years, it's fair to say it has.

  

  John Battelle
  • Nice

• I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

  

  Pete Townshend The Who
  • Music

• What is good looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Be good, be womanly, be gentle,-generous in your sympathies, heedful of the well-being of all around you; and, my word for it, you will not lack kind words of admiration.

  

  John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Good
  • Words

• I love Chicago. I got on a bus and asked the driver, Do you go to the Loop? He said, No, I go beep-beep!

  

  Joey Bishop
  • Chicago
  • Driver
  • Loop

• I think people are universal.

  

  Ang Lee
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Universal

• Painting is an eye, a blinded eye that continues to see, and sees what blinds it.. ..this tiny little thing, which is nothing, which dominates life.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Painting
  • Blinds
  • Dominates

• Before the storm we were musical ambassadors of New Orleans, and now we've become cultural ambassadors for the faith of post-Katrina renewal.

  

  Ben Jaffe
  • Musical
  • Before
  • Cultural

• In my 20s, as I began to travel in Europe, I found comfort in religious paintings. Even though my own belief in Catholic dogma had been shaken and weakened, I found that the beauty and the richness of the art still held me.

  

  Colm Toibin
  • Art
  • Religious
  • Travel

• The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.

  

  Pierre de Coubertin
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, no matter how unjustly. ... Hence they have had no trouble in finding men who would preach the damnability and heresy of the new doctrine from the very pulpit.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Human Nature
  • Doctrine
  • Preach

• There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity. It takes time to be holy.

  

  Erwin W. Lutzer
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