American Quotes

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses.

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.

Love doesn't make the word go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there.

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

A bargain is something you can't use at a price you can't resist.

We got guys who can score. Everybody knows guys can score.

Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.

When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.

To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.

The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.

The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.

Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ.

Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.

Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this.

Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.

Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.

God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.

We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.

Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.