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

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• 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

• A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Artist
  • Mechanic
  • Synthesis

• 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

• They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Good
  • Book
  • Page

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

  

  Dak Prescott
  • School
  • Football
  • Player

• I loved Heidi Klum, but now I know Kathy Ireland is on the cover of Forbes, so that’s pretty amazing as well.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Pretty
  • Amazing

• 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

• Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?Is it possible that a theory of man is nothing more nor less than a theory of the speaking creatures?

  

  Walker Percy
  • Why
  • Nature

• 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

• Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.

  

  Elbert Hubbard

• 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

• Are these clues? Which ones are important? Which ones are incidental? Which ones are circumstantial?

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Important

• Drowning is not so pitiful As the attempt to rise. Three times, ’t is said, a sinking man Comes up to face the skies, And then declines forever To that abhorred abodeWhere hope and he part company,- For he is grasped of God. The Maker’s cordial visage, However good to see, Is shunned, we must admit it, Like an adversity.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Up
  • Good
  • God

• The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• No hero in your tragedy,No daring in your escape,No salutes for your surrender,Nothing noble in your fate,Christ, what have you done? - The Pass (1989)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Done
  • Hero
  • Fate

• I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Learn

• 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