J. C. Ryle Quotes

Do not glory in your own faith, your own feelings, your own knowledge, or your own diligence. Glory in nothing but Christ.

J. C. Ryle

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• I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.

  

  Adam Goldberg
  • Me
  • Known
  • Sure

• While hereditary chiefs inhabit the apex of our traditional social systems, it would be a mistake to think they hold all the power. They aren't kings. They aren't dictators. They're answerable to their clans and their matriarchs. All decisions that affect our communities require lengthy, deliberate discussions and careful negotiation.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • Power
  • Mistake
  • Decisions

• The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Man
  • Turn
  • Pancakes

• The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • You
  • Back
  • Bottle

• With any relationship that goes on and is productive over a long period, there have to be some sort of interlocking qualities in those personalities that make it possible to survive.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Long
  • Relationship
  • Period

• Life is always a problem. The fact that I'm on the radio saying that I don't necessarily see hope does not relieve people, does not relieve my son, does not relieve children, of the responsibility to struggle.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Bad
  • Run
  • Superhero

• And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Mother
  • Today
  • Success

• I love making lists.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Love
  • Making
  • Lists

• We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Live
  • Environment

• I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Good
  • Man
  • Control

• Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Sometimes
  • Fails
  • Succeeds

• People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable's role, or most of them.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • People
  • Up
  • Day

• In the case of my husband, we found that facing a life-threatening illness prodded us to make a dramatic change in our lives.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Change
  • Husband

• I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Man

• There is a latent anger in a lot of people that went to boarding school at an early age. I was eight. And I loved it over the five years, but I think the adjustments for eight-year-olds are a lot. And I think it informs who you are for a long, long time.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Most fish require a short cooking time, but cephalopods are the exception to this fishy rule. As with some cuts of larger land beasts, the longer they're cooked, the more tender they get.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Cooking
  • Short

• We'll go in one direction with one album, and then we like to do the opposite right away. But it's not like we ever have an idea before we start - that would be too artificial. It all starts from just sitting in a room and playing.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Playing
  • Direction
  • Album

• I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Knowledge
  • Belief
  • Order

• The buyer, the prospect, the customer expects you to have knowledge of their stuff, not just your stuff.

  

  Jeffrey Gitomer
  • Knowledge

• Not simply the righteousness of our Saviour, not simply the beauty of His holiness or the graces of His character, are we to put on as a garment. The Lord Himself is our vesture. Every Christian is not only a Christ bearer, but a Christ wearer. We are so to enter into Him by communion, to be so endued with His presence, and imbued with His Spirit that men shall see Him when they behold us, as they see our garments when they look upon our bodies.

  

  Adoniram Judson Gordon
  • Character
  • Christ
  • Wearer

• The press in India, I believe, is more free, and happily so, than perhaps media anywhere in the world. Right? Which is a good thing.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • World
  • Good
  • Believe

• Do not glory in your own faith, your own feelings, your own knowledge, or your own diligence. Glory in nothing but Christ.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Faith
  • Knowledge
  • Feelings