Gardiner Spring Quotes

If you have nothing of the spirit of prayer, nothing of the love of the brotherhood, nothing of mortifying the spirit of the world, nothing of growth in grace, of cordial, habitual, persevering obedience to the Divine commands, how can it be that you have been brought nigh by the blood of Christ?

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• I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech.

  

  Taylor Spreitler
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Mr. Idris Elba is amazing! He happens to be British, but what's funny about him is that when he's speaking in his American dialect, he looks like he's a brother from the 'hood. But as soon as he brings out that English thing, I'm like, 'Woo! You look like you're from London. Oh my God!' It's like everything on him changes. He's so cool!

  

  Tasha Smith
  • God
  • American
  • Funny

• My school in St. Louis is great. They basically created a program where I can do online classes and independent studies when I'm traveling. But then I still get to go home and take classes in a normal school environment.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Great
  • School
  • Home

• I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Art
  • House
  • Small

• Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.

  

  Maimonides
  • Power
  • High
  • Respect

• The point of serving your country is not to do your own thing or to go rogue, but to work as part of the process.

  

  Kal Penn
  • Work
  • Country
  • Process

• Seventy-five percent of women who smoke would like to quit, and yet only two to three percent quit every year... It's significant because we can help women quit smoking.

  

  David Satcher
  • Women
  • Help
  • Smoking

• I think for anything to be successful, your problems have to become different problems over time.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • Time
  • Different

• I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot.

  

  Andy Richter

• It was the special purpose of Christ's appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.

  

  John Quincy Adams
  • Earth
  • Light
  • Purpose

• When you're looking at small languages, the population of speakers is so small that there might not be people with the expertise in science or agronomy to write optimal planting strategies for maize in the local language.

  

  Philip M. Parker
  • People
  • Science
  • Small

• Theatre is a game of hide-and-seek. For both the hiders and the seekers, the thrill is in the discovery. When the rules of the game are too vague or too complicated, however, the audience can lose its urge to play; the prize no longer seems quite worth the hunt.

  

  John Lahr
  • Game
  • Theatre

• Costas: But look who gets it next!Enberg: The Greatest! Oh my!

  

  Bob Costas

• I have never been one to flinch or crawfish when faced with an unpleasant task.

  

  Charles Portis

• Happiness comes in small doses folks. It's a cigarette, or a chocolate chip cookie or a five second orgasm, that's it okay? You cum, you eat the cookie, you smoke the butt, you go to sleep you get up in the morning and go to fucking work okay? That is it, end of fucking list!

  

  Denis Leary
  • Up
  • Work
  • Small

• To be conformed to this world is to risk the loss of one’s eternal soul.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • World
  • Soul
  • Risk

• Pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Wife
  • Husband
  • Pride

• He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Great
  • Interest
  • False

• God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Time
  • God
  • Duty

• Sit and be still until in the time of no rain you hear beneath the dry wind's commotion in the trees the sound of flowing water among the rocks, a stream unheard before, and you are where breathing is prayer.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Time
  • Water
  • Prayer

• Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,--prayer.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Faith
  • Heaven
  • Prayer

• If you have nothing of the spirit of prayer, nothing of the love of the brotherhood, nothing of mortifying the spirit of the world, nothing of growth in grace, of cordial, habitual, persevering obedience to the Divine commands, how can it be that you have been brought nigh by the blood of Christ?

  

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