I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.
– Criss Jami
Related Quotes:
- I am longing for you in life and in deathAs the moon is longing for night and life is longing for breath – Debasish Mridha
- It is precisely democracy which is destroying the American political structure, American law, and the American economy. – Rose Wilder Lane
- I don’t believe in the Constitution because I’m American, I’m American because I believe in the Constitution. – JSB Morse
- Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied. – Criss Jami
- A rebel adult often seems like a glorious savior, whereas a rebel child often seems like a little devil. – Criss Jami
- Religious Americans donate more and volunteer more time to charitable institutions than do secular Americans. – Dennis Prager
- Pride is born as a mountaintop on a valley, but dies as an abyss in which it is too deep and too dark to see the better. – Criss Jami
- …but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing. – Jack Kerouac
- Practicing what you preach is the world’s most eloquent sermon. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- No sermon I have heard or read touched my heart with half the force of this puppet show. John Quincy Adams – Paul C Nagel
- But we do not need to recount every sermon and eulogy. After all, you were there. – Neil Gaiman
- Kid’s don’t care how many sermons you preach to them. The only sermon they’ll hear is how you live your life in front of them. – Bruce Van Horn
- The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. But you’ll labor like scholars over a bulldog’s pedigree. – Robert Bolt
- …your life is your sermon…Are you a good translation? – Mark Batterson
- What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.American novels, answered Lord Henry. – Oscar Wilde
- The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution. – Benjamin Rush
- Violence isn’t a Democrat or Republican problem. It’s an American problem, requiring an American solution. – DaShanne Stokes
- We need a new, deeper appreciation of the ethnic histories of the American people, not a reduction of American history to ethnic histories. – Steven C Rockefeller
- The American family shattered for the simple reason that it was American, not global. – John F MacArthur Jr
- Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. – Robert Hughes
- People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American. – David Sedaris
- Does this mean that in some places I’m American and in some places I’m African American and in other places, by logical extension, I’m nobody? – Roberto Bolao
- When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical. – Ralph Ellison
- Every moment is a moment of hope, moment of beauty, a moment of joy and it is our life. – Debasish Mridha
- It is sometimes but the mere hope for enjoyment that allows one to enjoy something, even when he is not really enjoying it at the moment. – Criss Jami
- Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle. – Criss Jami
- God loves each person, I believe; although, just like we do in our private homes, He reserves His kingdom only for those whom He enjoys. – Criss Jami
- You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won’t do a thing unless you believe it yourself. – Criss Jami
- To believe in the truth of Christ is to be introduced to another form of hatred, and that is not sharing Him. – Criss Jami
- That deep longing that you keep dismissing as impractical, may be the very thing your soul is calling you to do. – Renae A Sauter
- Deep inside, we still have a longing to be reconnected with the nature that shaped our imagination – Janine Benyus
- We come to this world with an abundance of hope, a deep desire to love, and a longing to belong. – Debasish Mridha
- For every man there is a deep longing – Sunday Adelaja
- I refuse to believe the people of Texas and all Americans in the world have forgotten us. – PJ Parker
- Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for. – Laura Lippman
- Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Be careful who you believe and how you believe who you believe. What and Who you believe influences your life powerfully – Phebe Olaniran
- To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe. – JeanPaul Sartre
- The miracle of this moment is a glorious time. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Their lips touched now, mouths pursed tight, their eyes open, both of them stock still. The moment held, a kind of such glorious confusion. – David Nicholls