Christian Quotes

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Were all conning ourselves, one way or another, just to get through life.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.

Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

We all look for lost time.

I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business.

No elegant woman follows fashion slavishly.

You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes.

Without foundation, there can be no fashion.

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

To travel is to live.

Being on a trapeze is like dreaming. I feel totally outside of myself when I'm flying. You know, designing shoes, my imagination is flying in my drawings.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

God will not give me humility, or patience, or holiness, or love as separate investments of His grace. He has given only one gift to meet our need, His Son Christ Jesus.

Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.

Almighty God, thee only have I; thou steerest my fate, I must give myself up to thee! Give me a livelihood! Give me a bride! My blood wants love, as my heart does!

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure.

I never want to feel that I'm playing it safe.

Happy domestic life is like a beautiful summer's evening; the heart is filled with peace; and everything around derives a peculiar glory.

My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.

Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do.

What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be something a little bit loose in there.

I seek … the means to fight injustice. To turn fear against those who prey on the fearful.

I'm used to working alone. Frankly with some of the actors I've worked with, I've felt like I was working alone.

Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place.

The fact that you were born means that there are no other children born because of you – you’ve killed them in a way.

There's something about my Mexican-American heritage... I'm proud of it.

I hate the whole concept of comfort!

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

Aikido chagnes constantly. What do not change are the principles.

Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

People want to be in their own fashion tribes, so they want to wear the same clothes to be connected to everyone else in that tribe. But they want to be different from other tribes.

You win the fight by fighting.

Melancholy sees the worst of things, things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinning skull.

I think everybody needs a little bit of Minnie in their wardrobe.

Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so.

Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.

What you can become you are already.

Few minds wear out; more rust out.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love.

If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything.

I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

A happy relationship is made up of two good forgivers.

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.