Christian Quotes
Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.
Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.
It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.
He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.
Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
Of the women in my childhood, I retain above all the memory of their perfumes, perfumes that lingered - filling the lift with fragrance long after they had gone.
We go to the movies to forget about time, to be in a dream state. And it's entertainment, distraction, from the fact that everything is kind of crumbling in front of our eyes.
I grew up in a small village close to a big lake. There are heavy winds there, and they always sound different. I like these sounds best.
No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states.
But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty.
Information gently but relentlessly drizzles down on us in an invisible, impalpable electric rain.
The thing is - I'm not an idiot. I'm rather intelligent, as proven by the fact that I just used the word 'rather' in a sentence.
At first she was overjoyed that he would be with her, but then she recalled that human people could not live under the water, and he could only visit her father's palace as a dead man.
Conceptual art might be, for better or worse, (definable as) the art most susceptible to lossy compression.
Michael Jackson's charity efforts? Mmm. I'm sure they have nothing to do with his molestation charges.
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.
If I did not love what is present, if I could not cling to this enormous, safe parachute, I would long since have fallen into the abyss.
I know what you want. It is very stupid of you, but you shall have your way, and it will bring you to sorrow, my pretty princess. - The sea witch.
There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.
How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.
In France you cannot not have lunch. If you stopped the French from having lunch, you will have a second revolution, I can tell you this. Not going to work - it is part of the French privilege.
That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles.
I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of that. And I like the commitment that is needed for that.
I would have been very happy just cruising around and enjoying the unexpected. I've never been ambitious.
The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humour was the real salt in them.
Sometimes the truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people have got to have their faith rewarded.
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
I never had the dream to be a great designer. My focus was just to do beautiful things.
It's great when you find somebody you're compatible with, but I'm really into separate bedrooms. You live your life and I live mine.
Nuclear apocalypse-who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be somebody who can grow you some nice crops.
If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?
The way I see it, if you're going to make an action movie, you've got to make one with John Woo.
How serious can a movie about time-traveling robots be? You want it to be cool and fun.
Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
I like to see people who are survivors wearing my shoes. I am fascinated by people who can bounce back.