George Verwer Quotes

The truth is that most mission work is carried out where the church already exists Only small percentages are working where the church is non-existent.

George Verwer

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• I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Life
  • Political

• You can't hit what you can't see.

  

  Walter Johnson
  • You
  • See
  • Hit

• It's so nice that there's all this new space for new, good content. It's good news for us actors, since nobody makes real independent films anymore.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Good
  • Real
  • Nice

• All these actors who died before I was born, all the theaters and the artistic movements - all that stuff fills you up and makes you feel like you're the inheritor of all this information and of all its passion.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Up
  • Passion
  • Feel

• 'Shocking' is like a bolt from the blue. It is something external that ruptures your world.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • World
  • Like
  • Blue

• A creature that cannot grasp the mutual exclusiveness of A and not A has no difficulty in lying; more than that, such a creature has not even any consciousness of lying, being without a standard of truth.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Truth

• We are the mimics. Clouds are pedagogues.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Clouds

• Do the best job I can, not hurt our fellow beings on this planet, that's my religion.

  

  Anu Garg
  • Job
  • Hurt

• Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Death does determine life.

  

  Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • Life
  • Death

• Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken language is our thing.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • People
  • Art
  • Together

• A lot of people have told me along the way that my style and the music I do... is unmarketable. But the only reason I'm successful is because I have stayed true to myself.

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • People
  • Music
  • True

• Most of my inspiration comes from mistakes, so every time I make a massive mistake, that usually affects me so much that I have to process that via song.

  

  Nicholas James Murphy
  • Song
  • Mistake
  • Inspiration

• I based in Brazil, Sao Paulo, but I come very often to the states, and I travel all over the world.

  

  Emerson Fittipaldi
  • World
  • Travel

• My main dream - and I'm trying to get 'Living TV' to do it - is to go into prison and interview serial killers, rapists, murderers, psychopaths.

  

  Katie Price
  • Trying
  • Dream

• Heroes aren't always people who save others in the normal sense. Sometimes they're people who keep trying even when things seem impossible.

  

  Jeff Vandermeer
  • People
  • Trying

• If I displayed this cup, I might look at it once or twice a week. By using it, I get pleasure from it continually.

  

  Lila Acheson Wallace

• I was about to walk on stage at the Kansas Speedway - I was playing a NASCAR race - and I said to Scooter Carusoe, who was standing side stage, 'I want to write a song called 'Wanna Be That Song.' Then I put my earphones back in and walked right out on stage.

  

  Brett Eldredge
  • Song

• Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Power
  • Simple

• If it's a matter of dying here or dying there, I think I'd like to at least see the world first.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Dying
  • First

• Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself. It all gets back to the fact that I am, first of all, a songwriter and a singer.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Music
  • Done
  • Addiction

• I loved my mission in Switzerland and Germany. As I left on the train from Basel, Switzerland, tears flowed down my cheeks because I knew then that my full-time service in the Church had ended.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Time
  • Church
  • Service

• The most creative social strategy we have to offer is the church. Here we show the world a manner of life the world can never achieve through social coercion or governmental action. We serve the world by showing it something that it is not, namely, a place where God is forming a family out of strangers.

  

  Stanley Hauerwas
  • World
  • Action
  • Church

• The truth is that most mission work is carried out where the church already exists Only small percentages are working where the church is non-existent.

  

  George Verwer
  • Church
  • Exist
  • Mission