S. McPherson Quotes
What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit.
What is my task? To get the gospel around the world in the shortest possible time to every man and woman and boy and girl!
With God, I can do all things! But with God and you, and the people who you can interest, by the grace of God, we're gonna cover the world!
O Hope! Dazzling, radiant Hope! What a change thou bringest to the hopeless; brightening the darkened paths, and cheering the lonely way.
I have never been brought up a Catholic - I mean, a Roman Catholic - we're all Catholics, aren't we? We're Protestant Catholics, whether we're from Methodist or Baptist or what.
Having God's unconditional love does not mean you have God's unconditional approval.
Churches that make an impact are more focused on putting boots on the streets than butts in the seats
True prevention is not waiting for bad things to happen, it's preventing things from happening in the first place.
The money to be made is clearly more important than the extinctions we cause, including our own.
For every way someone can be lost, we want to provide a practical way for them to be found in the very place they have ended up.
If you really think the environment is less important than the economy try holding your breath while you count your money.
Christmas is a time when God showed His love for us, and we're ready to show God's love in the communities where we live and serve. That's the purpose of the church.
I could not flourish in the Hollywood system because the first thing spoken about is "What genre is it?" and "Who's it for?" It's a very strange question to me; it's for human beings.
We're all ordinary in a way. We can all be hurt. We can all be unbalanced. We all have feelings. Life can treat us harshly, even shockingly sometimes.
I just want the actors to put their faith in the language. Just let the words do the work.
We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile.
The play is a very simple idea really; someone needs some support and consolation, and she finds a place where she gets it.
I think Catholicism took root very quickly in Ireland because it's a very superstitious religion, the holy ghost, the holy spirit, it has a goddess, very visual, the music.
I have a theory about Ireland, being at the edge of Europe. For 1,000 years, people didnt know what was beyond. But we thought about it - a lot. And that beyond became internalized in our psyche.
I started directing out of necessity, the first play I wrote in college because I didn't know anyone who could direct it.
On our first tour we just went full on, drinking too much and smoking too much before the shows. But it's a learning curve. We now know our limits.
Nothing is etched in stone in tennis until the final point has been played. That's why we watch.
Directing is such a crucial part of the writing process; you start directing and you see what does not work. "Oh, God, what was I thinking?" and then you can rearrange it.
I guess Im attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And its why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.
The notion of "cause and effect" is sometimes useful in real life, and it can even be interesting in art, but I'm more interested in "cause and cause" or "effect and effect" or "and and and".
His love is like an unquenchable fire and He refreshes with living waters. I thirst daily and go to the well to drink and be consumed
If you really think that the enviroment is less important than the economy, try holding your breath while you count your money.
Laughter is the stubborn reward of grim times.
Above all Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America.
Lift up your heads, ye people, lift up your faces, too, open your mouths to sing His praise, and the rain will fall on you.