Matthew Quotes

The prophets preach . . . that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people.

Big-heartednes s is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey.

Animals teach us about the animals in ourselves. We need their spirits.

When the Sacred Masculine is combined with the sacred feminine inside each of us, we create the 'sacred marriage' of compassion and passion in ourselves.

I'm either going to have the career I want doing films, or I'll do something else - I'll be gone.

I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.

I'll put it to you this way: I never, ever think about the things that I get involved with on a macro means-to-an-ends scale.

I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.

I think that there's a hidden darkness in all of us!

I'm not saying I want a film career because I think I'm too good for television. I'm simply saying I want more control over my life.

Cars are part of our genetic makeup. It's unavoidable.

If you're opposites, you complement each other; you aren't jealous. Just annoyance and fighting, as opposed to rivalry.

I don't like writing for myself to sing. I prefer to have other people's voices to dispose of in some way that they'll like or not like or flatter them or not flatter them. It's fun.

The actual making of the records obviously have everything to do with each other, because I made them one day after the other, alternating doing it.

Goals are just dreams with deadlines.

Be frugal of your time. It is one of the best jewels we have.

When rogues fall out, honest men get into their own.

In all God's providences, it is good to compare His word and His works together; for we shall find a beautiful harmony between them, and that they mutually illustrate each other.

Prayer is the breath of the new man, drawing in the air of mercy in petitions, and returning it in praises; it proves and maintains the spiritual life.

Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.

The greatest of men must turn beggars when they have to do with Christ.

It is better to get wisdom than gold. Gold is another's, wisdom is our own; gold is for the body and time, wisdom for the soul and eternity.

All obedience begins in the affections, and nothing in religion is done right, that is not done there first.

He that is in haste may contract much guilt in a little time. What we say or do unadvisedly when we are hot, we must unsay or undo again when we are cool, or do worse.

Take Jesus for your king, and by baptism swear allegiance to him; take him for your prophet, and hear him; take him for your priest, to make atonement for you.

Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?

The beauty of holiness is that which the grave, that consumes all other beauty, cannot touch, or do any damage to.

We must believe that He is able to do what He will, wise to do what is best, and good, according to His promise, to do what is best for us, if we love Him, and serve Him.

Esther came to a proud imperious man; we come to the God of love and grace.

We cannot expect too little from man nor too much from God.

Men may die like lambs and yet have their place forever with the goats.

We read of preaching the Word out of season, but we do not read of praying out of season, for that is never out of season.

The streams of religion run deep or shallow, according as the banks of the Sabbath are kept up or neglected.

Conscience is that candle of the Lord which was not quite put out.

...When we are waiting upon God to bless us, we should stir up ourselves to bless him.

Earth is embittered to us, that heaven may be endeared.

Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them.

Their own second and sober thoughts.

When he [the slothful person] is pressed to be diligent, either in his worldly affairs or in the business of religion, this is his excuse (and a sorry excuse it is as bad as none).

Those that are above business.

Though we must never think to learn above our Bible, as long as we are here in this world, yet we must still be getting forward in it.

When you are in pain, a moment is an eternity.

Never trust a storyteller," he says. "We're all of us liars.

You are stronger than me," Asa says. "And in bravery and strength, there is a kind of beauty.

One cannot apologize for one's nature.

I'm not massively into computers. I'm a fan of Macs because they're more user friendly, so I'm used to using them.

I'm a big fan of cameras. I'm reasonably interested in good gadgets and I'm amazed by what things can do. The quality of the GoPros and what they can do is amazing.

The abuse of a good does not diminish the good of a good

When you make movies based on real life, you try to exaggerate it.

I am providing a service that many people obviously value.