With People Quotes
Some people find the gift of salvation. For others the gifts are smaller: a kind word, a good deed. But all the gifts are from God.
God crowns us. Most people crown their Christmas trees with either an angel or a star. God uses both.
I get one hour, really 25 minutes in a sermon on a weekend, to combat all the hours of the week that people are told you are what you have through billboards, commercials, and sitcoms, and so forth.
People of each generation in the twentieth century "were three times more likely to experience depression" than people of the preceding generation.
Listen carefully to the feedback your readers give you. Dont write unless people want you to write, a lot of people write just because they want to write.
If you get a lot of good feedback from people, thats a sign that you have a strength or gift in writing, if not ... try singing.
I don't get asked a lot of questions about science and the Bible, for example. Probably people just know I'm not very smart and I don't have an answer to those anyway.
Kind of the bottom line for me, I don't think people come to the church where I preach to hear my view on politics.
We may not see the connection between the name Jesus and the phrase "save his people from their sins," but Joseph would have. He was familiar with the Hebrew language.
Truth can arrive within the story and ride latent - a bit incognito - within a story, and people are more prone to receive it.
The strength of a story is that it stays with people and it gives an opportunity for that story to connect with people where the Holy Spirit intends for it to do so.
What are you doing at the moment? How does that compare to your competitors? What do you want to achieve? How can you create something people want?
What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be done is done; the desires of unruly, thoughtless people are always increasing.
There was a time when beheadings were in the public mind because people around the world were getting their heads cut off for various reasons.
I don't think of my music as something that works well in the background. And because a lot of it isn't in 4/4, people might not like to dance to it.
People call me a bedroom electronic musician, which I suppose I am. But I hate most electronic music; I find it really boring.
I try and open a few doors to the mind, encourage people to embrace change and to stretch their capabilities.
In Harlan, Kentucky, we told stories the way some people play music. ... In the mountains, storytelling is truly an art form, and as much recreation as communication.
Ocean people are very different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes.
I'd like to go to New Society Village someday and find out exactly how far I can walk before people stop talking like me.
The poet must be free to love or hate as the spirit moves him, free to change, free to be a chameleon, free to be an enfant terrible. He must above all never worry about this effect on other people.
The price of being oneself is so high and involves so much ruthlessness toward others (or what looks like ruthlessness in our duty-bound culture) that very few people can afford it.
I think that passion if really intense is always destructive if not to the two involved, always to other people.
all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.
When teachers or people in authority put me down or in one way or another tried to make me feel less than equal to what they thought I should be - my mother was on my side. It was amazing.
We must create a climate where people agree that human beings are more alike than unalike. The only way to do that is through education.
If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to learn technique and surrender my ignorance.
People are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity is greater than the sum of its parts.
Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.
I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.
I am convinced that most people do not grow up ... our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.
Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older.
It's wonderful that whenever Patsy Cline's name is mentioned, people's voices fall and they become right sentimental. And, rightly so.
If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.
I believe what I have to say is important, and I believe the people coming to hear me are important, and so the occasion of itself alone has an importance, which forces me to stare down my nerves.
People trying to separate people rather than bring us together... please. You don't just see it in America. It's all over the world.
When I forgive other people, I let them go, I free them from my ignorance. And as soon as I do, I feel lighter, brighter and better.
When people see the laughing face, even if they're jealous of it, their burden is lightened. But do it first for yourself. Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself.
People feel guilty. And guilt is stymieing. Guilt immobilizes. Guilt closes the air ducts and the veins, and makes people ignorant.
There is a lot of ignorance, and I don't mean intellectual ignorance. I mean people think that if you get something, it will take away from what I have. It's just ignorance.