People Quotes - Page 1276

St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by the first Christian sermon, ever preached, three thousand - which formed the primitive Church.

Christian people should surely have been in the vanguard of the movement for environmental responsibility, because of our doctrines of creation and stewardship. Did God make the world? Does he sustain it? Has he committed its resources to our care? His personal concern for his own creation should be sufficient to inspire us to be equally concerned.

When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch.

And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.

People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.

Sometimes people don't notice the things others do for them until they stop doing them.

You become what you focus on and like the people you spend time with.

We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it.

People who have nothing to say, speak the loudest.

People cannot live by lending money to one another.

The object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them

There will be no people in heaven who want to be around their things more than Jesus.

The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God.

America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.

I almost rely on other people to say, "Hey, you ever hear of this band?" And I'll say, "Oh, I've never heard of that!" And I listened to them and thought, "What the hell?"

One of the great misconceptions about spiritual growth that develops in a lot of churches is that information alone is adequate to produce transformed human beings. So if we want to have a church of spiritually mature people, let's just keep cramming more and more information into them... Information alone is not adequate for the transformation of the human personality.

People who are servants-humbly, honestly, and joyfully-keep getting revealed as the biggest winners. People who recognize and embrace their smallness keep getting bigger and bigger in God's eyes. It's the oddest scoring system.

The most important thing that everyone should bring to the dining experience is a certain generosity of spirit. Just remember that there are two kinds of people: lovers and others. And you know what you can do with the others.

The common people say, that physicians are the class of people who kill other men in the most polite and courteous manner.

Perfection cannot be reached, because nothings perfect. But things can change, and so can people

I am very blessed. The Valley is full of people, but they do not annoy me. I revolve in pathless places and in higher rocks than the world and his ribbony wife can reach.

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.

Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age which is cursed by the desperate need to cling to some finger-hold halfway up the mountain, to conform, not to cause trouble, to behave well.

The best performers in Europe are those who use their welfare states to help people adjust to change.