#reaching

Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God. ↗

— John Hines

#effective #even #expects #god #long

We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#open-minded #political #political decisions #reaching #represent

The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#both #different #final #identical #involving

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#down #help #ounce #person #pound

Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside? ↗

— Mary Douglas

#believe #encouraged #frustration #grand #jealousy

I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's there in your conscience. ↗

— Tim McGraw

#conscience #decisions #faith #guy #i

I watch people who are not driven by creativity any more, and I think how dull it must be to produce the same kind of thing. If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it. ↗

— George Michael

#creativity #driven #dull #feel #how

The Internet plays an ever more significant role in the sedulous promotion of terrorism. We know that in the U.K., groups gather to view the preaching of violent men located many thousands of miles away and that this does have a powerful effect on young minds. ↗

— Pauline Neville-Jones

#does #effect #ever #gather #groups

Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough. ↗

— David Packard

#ask #big #big questions #enough #far

Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#beloved #bishop #christ #distant #english