A. W. Pink Quotes

The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas.

I'd rather bleed with cuts of love than live without any scars.

When the reward is the activity itself--deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best--there are no shortcuts.

For a Christian to defy adversities is to "despise" chastisement. Instead of hardening himself to endure stoically, there should be a melting of the heart.

Faithful people have always been in a marked minority.

There's something about breaking up with someone - you just look hotter than you ever did before.

When you have a dark side, nothing is ever as good as it seems.

I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend.

One of the best predictors of ultimate success in either sales or non - sales selling isn't natural talent or even industry expertise, but how you explain your failures and rejections.

My life was once whiskey, tears and cigarettes... now it's snot, tears and a color of poop. Bliss. I do miss the whiskey, though.

Whatever I cannot do for God's glory must be avoided.

I'm such a control freak, and it's very hard for me to lose my inhibitions without something chemical inside me.

The girl in the mirror wasn't who I wanted to be and her life wasn't the one I wanted to have.

Real prayer is communion with God

Sometimes it takes a tragedy to bring people together, Other times it just takes music.

Contentment... is the soul's enjoyment of that peace that passes all understanding.

When I was in seventh grade my mom caught me smoking cigarettes and punished me by making me smoke the entire carton. All it did was piss me off because I was out of cigarettes.

Abstract thinking leads to greater creativity... But in our businesses and our lives, we often do the opposite. We intensify our focus rather than widen our view.

We hate so fast and we love too slow

I dedicate my love and whole heart this Memorial Day to my Dad, a soldier, who like many others, suffers in silence with pride and honor.

Where sin had brought men, love brought the Saviour.

In the person of Christ God beholds a holiness which abides His closest scrutiny, yea, which rejoices and satisfies His heart; and whatever Christ is before God, He is for His people.

After grief for sin there should be joy for forgiveness.

Chastisement is designed for our good, to promote our highest interests. Look beyond the rod to the All-wise hand that wields it!

In my experience the best way to beat depression is to get involved in something inspiring.

Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women's rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what's going on in Africa - it stops us from thinking in general.

No verse of Scripture yields its meaning to lazy people.

If you understand the independent worker, the self-employed professional, the freelancer, the e-lancer, the temp, you understand how work and business in the U.S. operate today.

You can't be creative when you're completely happy.

I see you try to hurt me bad. Don't know what you're up against. Maybe you should reconsider; come up with another plan. Cause you know I'm not that kinda girl. I'll just get back up again.

God cannot change for the better, for He is already perfect; and being perfect, He cannot change for the worse.

Raise your glass if you are wrong in all the right ways.

Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive.

We're not broken, just bent, and we can learn to love again.

The aggressive side of me comes across in my music, but I'm just a sweet girl.

This life gets lonely when everybody wants something.

I'm cool. I don't need to be skinny. I like to be strong.

If I have never mourned over my waywardness, then I have no solid ground for rejoicing.

It seems the best approach for any venture is a combo platter - Japan's quality-consciousness paired with America's willingness to experiment and (sometimes) fail.

I can turn heartbreak into songs that help other people

Intrinsic motivation is conducive to creativity; controlling extrinsic motivation is detrimental to creativity.

I'm very involved with PETA - People for Ethical Treatment of Animals - and Greenpeace and a lot of women's shelter and clothing giveaways.

Pretty, pretty please, don't you ever ever feel like you're less than, less than perfect.

if the will is their servant then it is not sovereign, and if the will is not sovereign, we certainly cannot predicate 'freedom' of it.

The truth of God may well be likened to a narrow path skirted on either side by a dangerous and destructive precipice: in other words, it lies between two gulfs of error.

Prayer is not designed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed as a confession to him of our sense of need.

You hear people say it all the time, how life changes so drastically. But you can't possibly grasp how beautiful that is until you have your child.

I dont think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.

There's always room for improvement. I'm always focused on the results, and those are the precise things that I don't really experience as a part of the performance.

The things that keep me awake at night are things like textures and instrumentation and plotting out what things are going to do and what the sounds are that I'm trying to capture.