John Piper Famous Quotes
"Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever."
John Piper Quotations
Hollywood actors and actress are not better than you -- They just act like they are.
Eric Pio
If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.
John Cage
"To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off."
Nancy Friday
Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.
Alfred A Montapert
"A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can."
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
"Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them."
Walter Kerr
"If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also"
Lois McMaster Bujold
"Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain."
John Dryden
"If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back."
Lois McMaster Bujold
The television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
David Frost