T. S. Elliot Quotes

The kinds of nets we know how to weave determine the kinds of nets we cast. These nets, in turn, determine the kinds of fish we catch.

Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.

The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman.

God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don't have now, we don't need now.

It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.

Ps 119:89-91: The settled Word in Heaven makes for a solid foundation on earth and a safe path for today.

Why do you need a voice when you have a verse?

The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.

All art forms employ some means through which images become real.

If I didn't have some kind of education, then I wouldn't be able to count my money.

A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.

Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter.

If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The will of God, we can rest assured, is invariably a better thing.

If we are the sheep of His pasture, remember that sheep are headed for the altar.

Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.

One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.

Schools are not about enabling children to have a living but about children being able to have a life.

The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development.

If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine!

The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.

He is always doing something--the very best thing, the thing we ourselves would certainly choose if we knew the end from the beginning. He is at work to bring us to our full glory.

You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.

Wherever you are, be all there! Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.

The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it's going to be a lot better and a lot bigger.

What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.

For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, 'Lord, what will you give me today to offer back to you?'

Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.

The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

A spirit of restlessness and resistance can never wait, but one who believes he is loved with an everlasting love, and knows that underneath are the everlasting arms, will find strength and peace.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.

I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it.

Faith's most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.

If apple is the language of the future, then art must be the core.

The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.

I have felt the impact of your prayer in these past weeks. I am certain now that nothing has had a more powerful infl uence on this life of mine than your prayers.

Every day is not a beautiful day for anybody, but I try to treat all my fans nice and all the interviewers nice.

I'm not a prostitute but I can give you what you want

Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.

Minds, unlike brains, are not entirely given at birth. Minds are also forms of cultural achievement.

If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look 'little' or 'big'.

Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.

Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first?

You can never lose what you have offered to Christ.

God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.

Human beings aren't rational animals; we're rationalizing animals who want to appear reasonable to ourselves.

I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you Lord Jesus.

It would seem that unless we see through and beyond the physical, we shall not even see the physical as we ought to see it: as the very vehicle for the glory of God

But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.