George Barna Quotes

The average Christian leaves planet earth never having led anyone to Christ.

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• The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • World
  • Control
  • Eyes

• What's really interesting about actors, is that we all have opinions on how people's careers look, but I think you never have any idea of your own, or what other people think of you.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Think
  • Interesting

• I am not helpless. Any timid minister will not go forward... I have come here to strive hard for the sake of the country, to work for the country. If anybody thinks that decision making process in the oil sector will be prevented, they are totally wrong.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Country
  • Process
  • Strive

• As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Think
  • Song
  • Inside

• I think a good rapport is required between actors for any film.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Good
  • Think
  • Film

• Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Time
  • Mind

• It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Life
  • Up
  • Education

• 'Jack,you have debauched my sloth.'

  

  Patrick O'Brian

• What's special about Miami is the collision of cultures. And the white sand beaches and fantastic restaurants.

  

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan

• We make movies that crack us up and hope that they crack up other people, too.

  

  Dean Devlin
  • People
  • Up
  • Hope

• Yeruham's small. You walk five minutes, and you're in the desert.

  

  Alexander Gould
  • Small
  • Desert

• I definitely think my work comes from things that I liked as a kid, and things I still like now. Monsters and magic and museums and movies, a lot of things that start with 'M' for some reason.

  

  Brian Selznick
  • Work
  • Magic

• I think I land somewhere between Scorsese and Capra in what I'm drawn to emotionally; I'm drawn to very intense emotion. Capra freaked people out when they saw Jimmy Stewart lose it in 'It's a Wonderful Life.'

  

  David O. Russell
  • People
  • Life

• I think I did a lot of really stupid stuff really quickly in my twenties and that sort of led me to want to sort of just relax a little bit. Relax a lot.

  

  Jemima Kirke
  • Stupid
  • Relax

• It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

  

  John Wooden

• Anyone who believes cannot experience miracles. By day one does not see any stars. Anyone who does miracles says: I cannot let go of the earth.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Experience
  • Earth

• Although I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet.

  

  Joseph Brodsky

• Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reason, Presidents can safely run against Congress, and vice versa, but I think there is an inherent popular aversion to assaults on the court itself. Perhaps it has to do with an instinctive belief that life needs umpires.

  

  Jon Meacham
  • Life
  • American
  • Popular

• Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Good
  • Character
  • Soul

• Under the new government of the Constitution, beginning in 1789, all of the peacetime measures were repeated: chaplains, prayers, memorials of Thanksgiving, the Northwest Ordinance, funding for the Christian education of Indians.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Education
  • Christian
  • Beginning

• Our assurance, our glory, and the sole anchor of our salvation are that Christ the Son of God is ours, and we in turn are in him sons of God and heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, called to the hope of eternal blessedness by God's grace, not by our worth.

  

  John Calvin
  • Christ
  • Glory
  • God's Grace

• And in Canada we, you know, it costs us three or $400 million to have an election. You know, it's always been my position that we shouldn't complain about that; that's the price of admission for a living in a great democracy.

  

  Rick Mercer
  • Democracy
  • Election
  • Complaining

• The average Christian leaves planet earth never having led anyone to Christ.

  

  George Barna
  • Christian
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