G.R. Elton Quotes

There's a time for everyone, If they only learn, that the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn.

Don't let the sun go down on me Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free But losing everything is like the sun going down on me

It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding.

Evangelism is not a professional job for a few trained men, but is instead the unrelenting responsibility of every person who belongs to the company of Jesus.

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment of just compensation.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Since achieving their independence in 1992, the people of Croatia have built a democratic society based on the rule of law, respect for human rights, and a free market economy.

Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the start of it for me.

This historic Christian doctrine of the divinity of Christ does not simply mean that Jesus is like God. It is far more radical than that. It means that God is like Jesus.

But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It's just when they step over the line that, you know, enough's enough.

Don't judge the picture by the frame, every man is not the same

No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the outer life of service, and the intellectual life of rationality.

It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.

I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.

Never trust a theologian who doesn't have a sense of humor.

If the average church should suddenly take seriously the notion that every lay member man or woman is really a minister of Christ, we could have something like a revolution in a very short time.

At the profoundest depths in life, men talk not about God but with Him.

Live for each second without hesitation

Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, 'that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.'

Democracy is necessitated by the fact that all men are sinners; it is made possible by the fact that we know it.

Better to build a bridge than a wall.

The spoken word is never really effective unless it is backed up by a life, but it is also true that the living deed is never adequate without the support the spoken word can provide.

The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.

Welcome to the world of bullshit, my dear. You have arrived.

The ultimate verification of our religion consists of the changed lives to which it can point and for which it is responsible.

People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.

Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory, that it speaks always the language of feeling.

Don't let the sun go down on me.

And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.

Engineering is a predictive science, not a manipulative art.

The only way to happiness is never to give happiness a thought.

If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything.

You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.

Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids, in fact it's cold as hell.

If historians are not skeptical, they are nothing.

I've only been interested in the artistic side of life.

And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.

Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.

The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation.

I do like Britney Spears. I think she's cute. I think she's fun. And I like her records. You know, I'm not a pop snob whatsoever. I think she makes great pop records.

No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.

Sweet freedom whispered in my ear, you're a butterfly, and butterflies are free to fly, fly away, high-away, bye-bye.

It seems to me, sorry seems to be the hardest word.

You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear.

The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.

And I talked to my doctor, and I must admit, you know, I'm sometimes quite renowned for my outbursts and I was just very frustrated, maybe a little frightened.

Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big.

The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.