Top 1200 Old Churches Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.

In science, the old men are usually wrong. But in politics, the old men are wise, counsel caution, and in the end are often right.

This much is sure in all churches, forgetting party labels; the smallest meeting numerically is the prayer-meeting. If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.

Old age takes in part savoury wisdom for its food - see to that your old age will not lack in nourishment.

The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.

We spend more time at cinemas, theaters, art galleries and theme parks than we do at churches, and they have become our new cathedrals. We can spend hours at any of these places of entertainment but if church service goes on too long we get impatient.

The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age.

White man goes into his churches to talk about Jesus, the Indian into his Tepee to talk to Jesus (with Peyote etc).

It strikes me as weird that a 25 year old man would even find a 16 year old attractive.

There aren't many fathers around here...If someone is old enough to father a child, he should be old enough to help bring it up.

Old school Janet Jackson is always good. I usually go old school, it's very rare that I pick a song from nowadays.

Ordinary people - churches, too - have a role to force politicians to respond. Governments are not impressed with theories, but governments are impressed with people who change their minds about things.

The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.

No matter how old an individual may be, no matter if he is young or old, if he thinks in accordance with the times he is immortal.

Obviously from 12-years-old to 16-years-old, your body changes and that's nothing to be embarrassed about, but boy I was!

I describe myself as a big kid with an old soul, I'm very playful whimsical, but I definitely have that old soul as well.

I like to joke that I already married a 26-year-old and divorced a 29-year-old, so I wasn't going to do that again when I got remarried.

We're in a tough situation because of teenage children, and then we have a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old, so my family and my responsibilities is sort of a juggle.

We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.

I don't worry about getting old. I'm old already. Only young people worry about getting old.

Those who have most at stake in the old culture, or are most rigid in their beliefs, try to summon people back to the old ideas.'

Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.

I believe that all the churches are going to continue to grow. I think faith in America is at an all-time high. And I think as we continue to help people and to change with the time, to be relevant and practical.

All the modern christian churches, who deny new revelation, have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have; indeed all their administrations are worse than in vain — they are a solemn mockery in the sight of God.

Whenever the average intellect of the clergy declines in the balance with the average intellect of the people the churches will be shut up and a new order of things [will] begin.

I would be the last to condemn the thousands of sincere and dedicated people outside the churches who have labored unselfishly through various humanitarian movements to cure the world of social evils, for I would rather a man be a committed humanist than an uncommitted Christian.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Try to see the world from the eyes of an old man! Old eyes are a good place to begin with for understanding the truths!

I like watching old stuff. I like old Al Pacino movies. 'Serpico.' 'Dog Day Afternoon.'

Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.

And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.

There are plenty of towns in America where the 4-year-old has shot his 2-year-old sister by using daddy's gun.

Inside I feel much like a 12-year-old or a 17-year-old who knows big words.

The very old certainly do not go back on lunch remains but they do bite back at old conversational topics.

I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards.

If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst thing you can do with an autistic 3 year old is to do nothing.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

I came up the old-fashioned way - tea boy, cutter, focus-puller, cinematographer - but I wasn't myself old-fashioned.

I like the word OLD. Not senior, that's for proms. Older? Older than whom? 'Old' is honorable and ripe

I know why politicians want to go on TV: that's where really old people are. And old people vote.

It's and old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.

The ecclesial communities which have not preserved the valid Episcopate and the genuine and integral substance of the Eucharistic mystery, are not Churches in the proper sense; however, those who are baptized in these communities are, by Baptism, incorporated in Christ and thus are in a certain communion, albeit imperfect, with the Church.

The human person, whose definition serves as the touchstone according to which good must be distinguished from evil, is considered as sacred, in what one might call the ritual sense of the word. It has something of that transcendental majesty which the churches of all times have given to their Gods.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away

It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.

The gospel is the power of God for salvation for all who believe, not just old, black grandmothers or not just old, white Republican guys.

Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.

The same old dumb teachers teaching the same old dumb subjects in the same old dumb school. I seem to be kind of losing interest in everything. At first I thought high school would be fun but it's just dull. Everything's dull. Maybe it's because I'm growing up and life is becoming more blase.

You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.

To me, feeling good about yourself as you get older is all about your attitude - if you think you're old, you'll feel old.

A friend often says I'm an old man in a young man's husk. I like that. I am old-fashioned in some ways.

What's great about stand-up unlike athletes and other things when you get old you get old and rusty.

My idea of growing older is wonderful. However, if I grow old, that's shameful. Older is good, old is bad.

The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.

François Mitterrand was a student of architecture, he had done a lot of research before he called me. He said, "You did something special at the National Gallery of Art in Washington - you brought the new and the old together." But John Russell Pope finished the West Building in 1941, so when the East Building opened it was only about 40 years old. But the Louvre is 800 years old! A much bigger design challenge.

I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly formative decade for me.

I think there's an incredible luck or skill for a 45-year-old man to draw like a three-year-old.

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.