Charles Spurgeon Quotes
Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.
Quotes to Explore
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.
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I don't think many people consider in their heart that they have two places that are home.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
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The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.
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Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.
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Good design is good business.
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I don't worry about whether I'm making a masterpiece, because I know that if you get just one of those in a lifetime, you should get down on your knees and say 'Thank you!'
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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
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I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.
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Parliament is supposed to be serious. It's not a place for jingoistic cheering.
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Excess is excrement.
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Winning the Indy 500 in 1995 and the Formula 1 championship in 1997 are very special moments for me, and the people in NASCAR show me respect for what I've achieved so far in my career.
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It taught him how to listen -- how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the City of Hollywood. People cluster. This means you have winning regions, such as London and Cambridge, and losing regions. The people who want to be top lawyers in Sunderland are hoovered up by London.
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Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.
