Blaise Pascal Quotes

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

Blaise Pascal

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• Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Up
  • God
  • Men

• Lebanon is a Syrian protectorate. The Lebanese dare not do anything without the approval of Damascus.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Anything
  • Dare
  • Approval

• As a youngster, my parents made me aware that all that was from the African Diaspora belonged to me. So I came in with Caribbean music, African music, Latin music, gospel music and blues.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Parents
  • Gospel

• The Gospel has to be the norm.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Gospel
  • Norm

• If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather to serve the pleasures of the flesh than to serve the Lord, and refuse to accept the Gospel life, there is no common ground between me and them.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Life
  • Men
  • Lord

• The mission proper to the Church is that of proclaiming the Gospel.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Church
  • Gospel
  • Mission

• You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Different
  • City
  • Poverty

• To lave in the wave,Majestic and chilly,Tomorrow I crave;But today it is silly.It is pleasant to look at the ocean;Tomorrow, perhaps, I shall swim in it.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Today
  • Ocean
  • Silly

• I had my trousers on at all times.

  

  Anthony Head

• As writers, we all have an agenda, but if you recognize that agenda in a book, then you've failed.

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • Book

• I have a hard time listening to things I've recorded. I don't necessarily go back and enjoy it. Occasionally I'll have the iPod on shuffle and something will come on. Nine times out of ten I'll wince and go on to the next one.

  

  Brian d'Arcy James
  • Time
  • Listening

• There's a lot of middle school behavior in Washington, D.C. I look at that and I say, 'I've seen that before,' it was just with a 14-year-old.

  

  James Lankford
  • School

• Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

  

  Dave Eggers
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • College

• Not only does the democratic state of mind stem from the inspiration of the Gospel, but it cannot exist without it.

  

  Jacques Maritain
  • Mind
  • Inspiration
  • Gospel

• Something I'll always remember - when I was a kid, I shook hands with Orville Wright. Forty years later, I shook hands with Neil Armstrong. The guy that invented the airplane and the guy that walked on the moon. In a lifetime, that's kinda wild when you think about it.

  

  Jonathan Winters
  • Remember
  • Guy
  • Moon

• The gospel is only good news when we understand the bad news.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Understand

• When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Gospel
  • Stake

• The gospel is the proclamation of the person and work of Jesus Christ and how those benefits can be applied to us by faith alone.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Work
  • Faith
  • Alone

• The Lord's Prayer "is truly the summary of the whole gospel." "Since the Lord...after handling over the practice of prayer, said elsewhere, 'Ask and you will receive,' and since everyone has petitions which are peculiar to his circumstances, the regular and appropriate prayer (the Lord's Prayer) is said first, as the foundation of further desires.

  

  Tertullian
  • Prayer
  • Lord
  • Foundation

• What is my task? To get the gospel around the world in the shortest possible time to every man and woman and boy and girl!

  

  Aimee Semple McPherson
  • Get
  • Gospel
  • Task

• "I thought this was a cookout. You know, dogs and burgers, Tater Tots, ambrosia salad" Dexter picked up a box of Twinkies, tossing them into the cart. "And Twinkies." "It is... Except that it's a cookout thrown by my mother." "And?" "And my mother doesn't cook." He looked at me waiting. "At all. My mother doesn't cook at all." "She must cook sometimes." "Nope." "Everyone can make scrambled eggs, Remy. It's programmed into you at birth, the default setting. Like being able to swim and knowing not to mix pickles with oatmeal. You just KNOW."

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Mother
  • Sometimes
  • Waiting

• I feel very happy because this is the beginning of something very important for my career.

  

  Camilo
  • Happy
  • Career
  • Beginning

• The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Gospel
  • Irresistible