Will Smith Quotes

Oh my friends, we are loaded with countless church activities, while the real work of the church, that of evangelizing and winning the lost is almost entirely neglected.

I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear.

I can get more out of God by believing Him for one minute than by shouting at Him all night.

Make a choice of what you want, who you want to be and how you're going to do it. The universe will get out of your way.

Read the Word. Consume the Word until it consumes you. Believe the Word. Act on the Word.

If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.

The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

God is more eager to answer than we are to ask.

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living.

Sometimes we make the mistake of thinking God uses only 'special' people the strong, the intelligent, the beautiful. We don't think He has a place for the rest of us. We are so wrong!

Nothing is more wistful than the scent of lilac, nor more robust than its woody stalk, for we must remember that it is a tree as well as a flower, we must try not to forget this.

Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy.

Perfect love will never want the preeminence in everything, it will never want to take the place of another, it will always be willing to take the back seat.

The world does not need sermons; it needs a message. You can go to seminary and learn how to preach sermons, but you will have to go to God to get messages.

A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people.

Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

How can one come to possess great faith? Now listen, here is the answer to that: First, the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear. Faith must grow by soil, moisture, and exercise.

The most powerful moral influence is example.

We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my work to embody my inherent contradictions.

The supreme task of the church is the evangelization of the world. No one has the right to hear the gospel twice until everyone has had an opportunity to hear it at least once.

Sorry, I'm allergic to bullshit.

If the shoe fits, buy it in every color!

Your aim's as bad as your cooking sweetheart... and that's saying something!

I am perfectly confident that the man who does not spend hours alone with God will never know the anointing of the Holy Spirit.

I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.

Be the same person privately, publically and personally.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?

You can find inspiration in everything. If you can't, then you're not looking properly.

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.

There is nothing that our God cannot do. He will do everything if you will dare to believe.

Don't allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out.

Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.

Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.

God is more interested in what we are than in what we do. He looks for fruit; we try to produce works.

Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

You don't have the right to hold somebody accountable for standards you refuse to apply to yourself.

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

So live for the kingdom of God. Seek to bring glory to Jesus Christ and the Lord will use you. It is my prayer, my constant and daily prayer, that God would keep me useable.

The most important thing a born again Christian can do is to pray.

The attitude, and the mind, is where it all starts.

You must come to see how wonderful you are in God and how helpless you are in yourself.