George Arthur Buttrick Quotes

Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

George Arthur Buttrick

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• If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Want
  • Giving
  • You

• Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Down
  • Calm
  • Storm

• While conducting a conventional war in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has staged terrorist attacks on a global scale against the people from the countries who are fighting ISIS.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • War
  • Fighting

• The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Proud

• I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Men
  • Why

• You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Life
  • Death
  • You

• I've always looked the same, and every 10 years, I'm a little bit in fashion.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Fashion
  • Always
  • Same

• We have to be able to poke fun at ourselves.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Fun
  • Able
  • Poke

• I want to go see Somalia because I've never been there, and I feel like I'm missing out. I want to learn that heritage; I want to learn about my culture.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Want
  • Culture
  • Learn

• I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • People
  • Road
  • Perception

• Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Good
  • Education

• Coercion is the least efficient means of obtaining order.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• I've always been this strong-willed person and I've always been in love with acting.

  

  Kristy Swanson
  • Strong

• I'm a great consumer of kung-fu movies - mid-'70s to late-'80s.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • Great

• Its definition can be a bit murky, but to me, native advertising is a sales pitch that fits right into the flow of the information being shown. It doesn't interrupt - native ads don't pop up or dance across the screen - and its content is actually valuable to the person viewing it.

  

  Om Malik
  • Up
  • Dance
  • Sales

• I think the story is important in every business. Why do you exist, why are you here, why is your product different, why should I pay attention, why should I care?

  

  Jason Fried
  • Different
  • Important
  • Why

• I can't relax. I'm not happy unless I'm working on stuff. 'SNL' is always a huge workload, as enjoyable as it is.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Happy
  • Relax

• 'Run' is exciting, about family secrets, the mystery surrounding them and the outdoor sport of parkour. The story itself is full of intrigue and action, but the parkour takes the story to another level. It was an absolutely incredible experience, working with experts from all over the country.

  

  Kelsey Chow
  • Country
  • Family
  • Experience

• I don't want to name names because they'd be mad at me if I did, but people who are significant novelists can't get published by real publishers at this point, or have to go through two years of trying after writing a novel that's taken them five or six years and simply can't get the thing in print. Or it gets in print and it doesn't get reviewed in the New York Times Book Review and disappears without a trace. I mean, it's terrifying. I don't know how anybody can stand it. It's such an enormous amount of work and the economics of it are really quite brutal.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• I think in life we get very caught up in the minutia and, unfortunately, it generally takes some sort of tragedy in your life to put things in perspective.

  

  Eli Roth
  • Life
  • Up
  • Perspective

• To have the opportunity to work with Tiger Woods was just so awesome. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the challenge. I enjoyed the good parts where he was winning. And I enjoyed the challenge to help him get better. But six years was enough.

  

  Hank Haney
  • Good
  • Work
  • Help

• Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • People
  • God
  • Remember

• Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

  

  George Arthur Buttrick
  • Thinking
  • Giving
  • Suffering