J. I. Packer Quotes
The Church, therefore, has two constant needs; instruction in the truths by which it must live, and correction of the shortcomings by which its life is marred.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
-
My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.
-
The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
-
My hunger is always there.
-
When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
-
The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
-
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.
-
I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
-
There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
-
Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
-
The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
-
I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
-
You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.
-
I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
-
I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful wife, brilliant students, the best job anyone could hope for, and about half of my hair. Not the half I would have kept, but no one consulted me.
-
Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.
-
Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!
-
I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.
-
Our message is the same age-old message of life. We have taught in the world for half a century: 'life is bliss, free from problems, it’s not necessary to suffer'.
-
Religion was quite a thing in our house - we were Baptists. Some Sundays I went to church three times. If there was a talk on missionary work in the afternoon, I could be there all bloody day. But religion took its first big knock after Dad died.
-
I don't think money can be understood through a lens limited to economics. And most books about money tell you the history of money, the instrument. But money is also an idea, one that we exchange to survive.
-
The Church, therefore, has two constant needs; instruction in the truths by which it must live, and correction of the shortcomings by which its life is marred.
