Adoniram Gordon Quotes

#1. Doctrine is the frame-work of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a holy life. It is only the lean creature whose bones become offensive.

Adoniram Judson Gordon

#2. I wanted to represent minorities in the respect of people who had been bullied in school or people who were gay or lesbian or trans or people who aren't blonde haired and blue-eyed. I have short hair, and I am covered in tattoos. I like showing people that it's within their rights to be different.

Ruby Rose

#3. There is more you can do after you pray, but there is nothing you can do until you pray.

Adoniram Judson Gordon

#4. The discovery of superfluidity opened up a new understanding in the science world.

David Lee

#5. I'm a speed skater. That's who I am, in my heart.

Shani Davis

#6. A good horse runs with seeing just the shadow of the whip.

Gautama Buddha

#7. As Shakespeare put it in 'King Lear,' the policeman who lashes the whore has a hot need to use her for the very offense for which he plies the lash.

Christopher Hitchens

#8. The Holy Spirit, not the pope, is the vicar of Christ on earth.

Adoniram Judson Gordon

#9. Whenever, in any century, whether in a single heart or in a company of believers, there has been a fresh effusion of the Spirit, there has followed inevitably a fresh endeavor in the work of evangelizing the world.

Adoniram Judson Gordon

#10. Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.

Adoniram Judson Gordon

#11. my work loves me as much as I love it - that it wants to play with me as much as I want to play with it - and that this source of love and play is boundless.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#12. Exposure and experience is all, what counts.

Lovely Goyal

#13. Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing which is original, but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that it is so; and which effects that for knowledge which the lens effects for the sunbeam, when it condenses its brightness in order to increase its force.

Charles Caleb Colton

#14. It is the great work of nature to transmute sunlight into life. So it is the great end of Christian living to transmute the light of truth into the fruits of holy living.

Adoniram Judson Gordon

#15. Kids don't really get to hear their parents giggle enough if you ask me...

David Levithan

#16. Even the leftover carats of tar in the gutter, so black they seemed to suck
the light out of the air.
By nightfall kids had come across them: every sidewalk on the block was
scribbled with obscenities and hearts.

C. K. Williams

#17. A mightier love for the Son of God, to overpower and subdue and lead captive these wayward and truant affections of the natural heart - this is what is needed.

Adoniram Judson Gordon