Top 1200 Threatening Us Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

At the heart of every really good Christmas movie is the threat, I suppose, to Christmas. Something is wrong with Christmas, in all of these movies. In 'The Polar Express,' there's a kid that doesn't really believe, and that's the threat to Christmas. In 'Santa Claus: The Movie,' jealousy and greed are threatening to overrun his Christmas.

This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion. It can humble us when we're arrogant and soften us when we are unkind.

The Spirit goes ahead of us when we witness--- preparing the way, giving us the words, and granting us courage.

We can put fear of the future in front of us to block us, or behind us to drive us forward. I feel like telling all the people who look like me to start trying to write. You don't know it's possible because it's not often in front of you.

God loves us completely. And He knew us at our worst before He ever began to love us at all.

What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present.

Ask yourselves if the gods are angry, you who have seen Harmony come among us, walk among us, touch us, look kindly upon us. We are the Sacred Band of Thebes. We fight in the forefront, therefore we bleed first. We live, therefore we die.

God gives us the vision, then He expects us to walk in obedience. As we do, the resources we need come to us.

What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.

We're lucky to have such great fans that have stood by us, let us be us and try new things.

A sacred pride should grip us of not being satisfied with the mediocre but to strive (for we can do it, if we want to) with the exertion of all our strength to attain the highest. Let us scorn what is of this earth, let us ignore what is of heaven, let us leave absolutely everything worldly behind us in order to hasten to the abode out of this world, in the proximity of the sublime deity. We do not need to think of stepping back. Of being satisfied with second rank, let us strive for dignity and glory. To attain the highest.

When the physicists ask us for the solution of a problem, it is not drudgery that they impose on us, on the contrary, it is us who owe them thanks.

We have a God who loves us. We are in the palm of his hand. He doesn't leave us, and He doesn't forsake us.

It's not sincereity, it is truth which frees us, because it transforms us. It tears us away from our inmost slavery.

God sometimes takes us into troubles waters not to drown us, but to cleanse us.

Jesus set us free to live the abundant life by being all that He has created us to be and accomplishing all that He has planned for us to do.

We have all of us the two natures - the brother and the sister! Not one of us is quite woman - not one of us is all man!

God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all.

Those that have lived longer than us always have something to teach us, that we can take with us for the rest of our lives.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Commitment, by its nature, frees us from ourselves and, while it stands us in opposition to some, it joins us with others similarly committed. Commitment moves us from the mirror trap of the self absorbed with the self to the freedom of a community of shared values.

It's always been a conscious thing for us to do whatever will separate us from the pack and make us happy musically.

The raging fire which urged us on was scorching us; it would have burned us had we failed to restrain it.

Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness.

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.

Not being secure affects us as humans. It throws us off our balance. It puts us in disarray.

Give us, O God, the vision which can see Your love in the world in spite of human failure. Give us the faith to trust Your goodness in spite of our ignorance and weakness. Give us the knowledge that we may continue to pray with understanding hearts. And show us what each one of us can do to set forward the coming of the day of universal peace.

Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end

God's power under us, in us, surging through us, is exactly what turns dependence into unforgettable experiences of completeness.

Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies.

The brain rewards us for interacting with beautiful things. In this way, evolution wants to encourage us to do what is good for us.

Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.

That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.

We can't do both. If you want us to lead, don't criticize us. And if you want us to play a supporting role, then tell us who is going to lead.

When I wrote "Lead Me," I had no idea that God was preparing me to lead my family through a season of great adversity. It was only a month after Pieces of a Real Heart was released that my wife, Sarah, and I found out that our son had a severe, life-threatening heart defect.

Jesus often calls us to risk. He asks us to be vulnerable, to be authentic, so others can see Him in and through us.

The Holy Spirit, in the variety of his gifts, unites us and enables us to contribute to the building up of the Church in holiness. In this great work, each of us has a part to play; each of us, as a "living stone", is needed for the growth and the beauty of God's holy temple. Let us ask the Lord to help us to take an ever more active part in the Church's life and mission, guided by the Holy Spirit and with Jesus as our cornerstone.

When violence is real and you flinch away from it, violence does not push people to try and imitate that. Often, we shun the violence that makes us flinch, because it disturbs us. And what makes us uncomfortable and disturbs us is not often bad. What disturbs us will not make us imitate that.

Beer is God's way of telling us that he loves us and wants us to be happy.

Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.

Tis not a year or two shows us a man: They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat us hungerly, and when they are full They belch us.

Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.

Most interviewers basically just want us to rephrase the bio. You already know us - why do you need to interview us?

The angels have never made it a secret that they are with us, they want us to know that they are here, and they do their best to give us signs all the time...

The whole of salvation history is the story of God looking for us: he offers us love and welcomes us with tenderness.

The Gospel teaches us what Jesus' kingdom requires of us... Reminds us that closeness and tenderness are the rules of life.

This is where you and I are headed.... Look for us in history books and you'll find us in the margins. Look for us in legends and you might just find us celebrated

deep they delved us, fair they wrought us, high they builded us; but they are gone.

Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead.

Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves!

Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.

We live surrounded by people who sound like us, vote like us, spend like us. We get only the news we want to. And then scream into the social media echo chamber that is designed to serve us up information we already like.

Scientific culture created a framework within which individual mobility was possible without threatening hierarchical work-force allocation. On the contrary, meritocracy reinforced hierarchy. Finally, meritocracy as an operation and scientific culture as an ideology created veils that hindered perception of the underlying operations of historical capitalism.

There is a secret about human love that is commonly overlooked: Receiving it is much more scary and threatening than giving it. How many times in your life have you been unable to let in someone's love or even pushed it away? Much as we proclaim the wish to be truly loved, we are often afraid of that, and so find it difficult to open to love or let it all the way in.

Parents tell us things to protect us, or they educate us from their own misinformation or misconceptions.

Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.

In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.

The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart; that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.

What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.