H.A. Ironside Quotes
All self-effort is but sinking sand. Christ alone is the Rock of our salvation.
We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.
I like to play bad guys, since good guys are always beaten up several times during the movie. Bad guys are beaten only once, in the end.
It is well to remember that reading books about the Bible is a very different thing to searching the Word for oneself.
Grace is the very opposite of merit... Grace is not only undeserved favor, but it is favor, shown to the one who has deserved the very opposite.
If what they are saying about you is true, mend your ways. If it isn't true, forget it, and go on and serve the Lord.
Faith is to rest, not in the best of God's servants, but in His unchanging Word.
The Christian life is never static. One must either grow in grace, or there will be backsliding and deterioration.
Great truths that are stumbling blocks to the natural man are nevertheless the very foundations upon which the confidence of the spiritual man is built.
Sin had no sooner come into the world than God came in grace seeking the sinner, and so from the first question, 'Adam, where art thou?' on to the incarnation, God has been speaking to man.
People who get involved with the success of something have to be given at least some share of that success.
If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer.
It is not only that sin consists in doing evil, but in not doing the good that we know.
I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.
My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.
When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.
To tell a man who has no realization that he is lost, that he may be saved by faith in Christ, means nothing to him, however true and blessed the fact is in itself.
She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.
I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts.
Figuring things out for yourself is the only freedom anyone really has. Use that freedom.
I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things.
I'm never going to be the lead actor guy. I'm real quiet and real happy and real fortunate to keep working. It's what I do. It's like the circus. I ran away and joined it a long time ago.
It's kind of a strange world when you can trust a game format or platform more than the network news.
Helena, like many women who ruled their own lives, adored being told what to do when there was no obligation to follow the advice given.
No, " said Luis, "You can't date the Lord of the Night Court.""Well, I'm not, he dumped me.""You can't get dumped by the lord of the night court.""Oh, yes, you can. You so completely can.
Every time I had things straight in my head abouthim, I saw him smile or crook an eyebrow, and all my sensible reasons on why I couldn’t have feelings for him seemed redundant.
Maybe because I knew Haze and Kate so well by then the passage leapt out at me, clear and sharp as di
Dad looked more sheepish than I had ever seen him look in his life. It made him appear younger.“A scent. Your mother’s shampoo.
In those stories, one is often asked to do something unimaginably terrible to the creature. Cut off it's head, say. A test. Not a test of love. A test of trust. Trust lifts the spell.
