Erwin W. Lutzer Quotes

Temptation is God's magnifying glass; it shows us how much work he has left to do in our lives.

Erwin W. Lutzer

• God
• Temptation
• Glass

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Imagination
  • Living
  • Yes

• When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn't win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Happy
  • Space
  • Win

• Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Science
  • Planning
  • Economic

• It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Eye
  • Stupid
  • Doing

• Endorphins are a very powerful thing.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Powerful
  • Thing
  • Very

• I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • World
  • Friends
  • Most

• I am smarter because I stayed in school, and I am a better football player.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • School
  • Football
  • Player

• Languages, literature, art, music, history: are all self-evident helps - and even mathematics and sciences, by training memory and demanding the analytical approach, are helpful by indirection.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Music
  • Art
  • History

• This is my impression of a Southern woman. 'Tsk, I am so mad at the Taliban right now!'

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Mad

• When I was a practicing alcoholic, I was unbelievable. One side effect was immense suspicion: I'd come off tour like Inspector Clouseau on acid. 'Where's this cornflake come from? It wasn't here before.'

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath

• Whether we shall continue to be a Government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people

  

  Archibald Cox
  • People
  • Men
  • American

• The fundamental values of a true community are elsewhere: in love, poetry, disinterested thought, the free use of the imagination, the pursuit of non-utilitarian activities, the production of non-profitmaking goods, the employment of non-consumable wealth - here are the sustaining values of a living culture.

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • True
  • Free
  • Culture

• Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Gentleman

• The (Catholic) church, as far as I know, has not endorsed any war as just since it supported General Franco's invasion of Spain to destroy the Spanish republic with a Muslim mercenary army in the thirties, on the side of Hitler.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • War
  • Church
  • Army

• It's a question of finding the right thing, if I'm going to be an actor... if I have to get up eight times a week for a number of months, I want to be excited and challenged from the day I start to the day I leave.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Up
  • Question

• I hate having to pose for photos. It's just so embarrassing. Everyone is expecting you to know what to do because you're an actor, but I haven't a clue.

  

  Claire Foy
  • Hate

• Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Love
  • Change
  • Information

• Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.

  

  Amy Tan
  • Time
  • Mother

• Never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives. This is poverty triumphant.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Poverty
  • Treasure

• Celebrate the Sacred in the ordinary.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Celebrate
  • Ordinary
  • Sacred

• Temptation is God's magnifying glass; it shows us how much work he has left to do in our lives.

  

  Erwin W. Lutzer
  • God
  • Temptation
  • Glass