G.R. Elton Quotes
Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records.
Simon Cowell and I are great friends and we wind each other up. Rod Stewart and I do the same thing.
The thing about Vegas is, I don't have to fly anywhere, and that really helps. It means I stay in one place for three weeks at a time instead of flying backwards and forwards.
And I agreed with that, and I couldn't wait to change my name anyway, because I'm not too fond of the name of Reginald. It's a very kind of '50s English name.
I've always enjoyed and loved playing live. I relish and cherish it more than anything else because you never know what the performance is going to be.
Lincoln had entirely outgrown juvenile delight in religious argument. Talking with God seemed to the mature Lincoln more important than talking about Him.
He (Lincoln) recognized the delicate balance between immanence and transcendence, refusing to settle for either of these alone. His was a God who was both in the world and above the world.
He (Lincoln) was accustomed to hearing words, many of them boring, but he was not accustomed to group silence.
The Biblical language was so deeply embedded in the great man's mind that it became his normal way of speaking.
Take all of this Book upon reason that you can, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man.
Upon being given a Bible, President Abraham Lincoln replied, "In regard to this Great book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.
Deeply convinced of the reality of the divine will, he (Lincoln) had no patience at all with any who were perfectly sure they knew the details of the divine will.
A major element in Lincoln's greatness was the way in which he could hold a strong moral position without the usual accompaniment of self-righteousness.
Man is most free when he is most guided.
His (Lincoln's) patriotism was saved from idolatry by the overwhelming sense of the sovereignty of God.
He was too perplexed to please the conventional and too reverent. to please the infidels.
God, Lincoln believed, is seen more clearly events that in nature, though He maybe seen there also. It is a majestic thing, thought Lincoln, for a person to be RESPONSIBLE.
It is most remarkable that Lincoln, when he saw so much that was vulnerable in the leadership of the Church, did not move to the opposite error and become a scoffer.
The question, he (Lincoln) said over and over, is not what a man's particular abilities may be, but what his rights are as a human being made in God's image.
In history, as elsewhere, fools rush in, and the angels may perhaps be forgiven if rather than tread in those treacherous paths they tread upon the fools instead.
People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves
It is the vocation of the Christian in every generation to out-think all opposition.
They were the Saturday Club, a secret society of which only the four of them were aware and which none other could join.
To positively discriminate in favour of groups that have been negatively discriminated against in the past.
With privilege comes responsibility, you must understand that. People expect us to lead by example and we shall not disappoint them.