T. S. Elliot Quotes

I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor.

I don't think it's so important who you vote for - you vote for who you believe in. The important thing is to vote, because it's our way and it's the best way.

Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.

Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.

When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).

We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves

Boy lift it up, lets make a toasta Lets get drunk, its gon bring us closa Don't I look like a HalleBerry posta?

All our problems are theological ones, William Temple said. All of them have to do with our relationship to God and his to us, and this is precisely why it makes sense to come to God with them.

What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.

We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.

What good are Greek, commentaries, insight, gift, and all the rest, if there is no heart for Christ?

I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine.

It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners.

Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.

God's command 'Go ye, and preach the gospel to every creature' was the categorical imperative. The question of personal safety was wholly irrelevant.

The Arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.

Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth!

Among the most joyful people I have known have been some who seem to have had no human reason for joy. The sweet fragrance of Christ has shown through their lives.

I'm close to my mother, and I could sit talking on the phone with her all day.

Self-justification, therefore, is not only about protecting high self-esteem; it's also about protecting low self-esteem if that is how a person sees himself.

It is possible to achieve mastery of a problem or a skill without hurting another person or even without attempting to conquer.

The world cries for men who are strong; strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer.

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

Either we are adrift in chaos or we are individuals, created, loved, upheld and placed purposefully, exactly where we are. Can you believe that? Can you trust God for that?

I'm not a person that's walkin' down the street looking mean all day.

It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.

You've got to make your own kind of music, sing your own special song, make your own kind of music, even if nobody else sings along.

We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.

Ninety-five percent of our wool is going to China.

Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living.

The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.

You will never understand why God does what He does, but if you believe Him, that is all that is necessary. Let us learn to trust Him for who He is.

If all struggles and sufferings were eliminated, the spirit would no more reach maturity than would the child.

Does God ask us to do what is beneath us? This question will never trouble us again if we consider the Lord of heaven taking a towel and washing feet.

Sometimes God's refusals are His mercies.

The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude?

I couldn’t have asked for more than God in deliberate grace has surprised me with!

As your life is in His hands, so are the days of your life. But don’t let the sands of time get into the eye of your vision to reach those who sit in darkness. They simply must hear.

I wasn't born a superstar.

The American mind in particular has been trained to equate success with victory, to equate doing well with beating someone.

Holiness has never been the driving force of the majority. It is, however, mandatory for anyone who wants to enter the kingdom.

I don't have time for lie-on-the-beach vacations. I'm a zoo person. There's one in New Jersey where animals actually come up to your car. I love the monkeys - I used to give them bubblegum to chew.

We have ample evidence that the Lord is able to guide. The promises cover every imaginable situation. All we need to do is to take the hand he stretches out.

Unwillingness to accept God's 'way of escape' from temptation frightens me - what a rebel yet resides within.

The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem-solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity.

He is no fool who parts with that which he cannot keep, when he is sure to be recompensed with that which he cannot lose.

Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes.

Women still dream and hope, pin their emotions on some man who doesn't reciprocate, and end up in confusion.

The needs of children during adolescence are particular and acute. They need an opportunity to develop a sense of identity and to maintain the sense of security that emanates from group acceptance.

We need to challenge our own thinking.