Arthur Tappan Quotes

#1. A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I wish I could deal such changing blows on stony hearts." The workman answered: "Maybe you could, if you worked like me, upon your knees."

Arthur Tappan Pierson

#2. The Word of God represents all the possibilities of God as at the disposal of true prayer.

Arthur Tappan Pierson

#3. God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are so few who actually give themselves unto intercession.

Arthur Tappan Pierson

#4. The supreme test of service is this: For whom am I doing this? Much that we call service to Christ is not such at all ... If we are doing this for Christ, we shall not care for human reward or even recognition.

Arthur Tappan Pierson

#5. By faith we are taken into Christ, made at once safe from holy wrath against sin, and kept safe from all perils and penalties. He, our divine Redeemer, becomes to us the new sphere of harmony and unity with God and His law, with His life and His holiness.

Arthur Tappan Pierson

#6. It was hard to get guys to notice me, period, because I was so skinny and all my friends were curvy. Plus, I used to be very nervous in front of guys.

Tyra Banks

#7. It's not selling out, it is called making lots of money.

Mick Jagger

#8. Every step in the progress of missions is directly traceable to prayer.

Arthur Tappan Pierson

#9. To write an album takes so much focus and selfish time, to just write and think about your life. For me. Maybe not for other people.

Gwen Stefani

#10. Rider: I want to be the guy with a future, with his shit togetherand wo has hope. I want to be the guy worthy of your love, and I'll swear, if you'll have me, I'll do everything in my power to be that man. I'll never stop trying. Ever.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#11. Jesus Christ is the outstanding personality of our time. Every act and word of Jesus has value for us. He became the light of the world. Why shouldn't I, a Jew, be proud of that?

Sholem Asch

#12. If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together.

Arthur Tappan Pierson

#13. A human being is like a television set with millions of channels ... We cannot let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to recover our own sovereignty.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#14. From all human oracles, however self-confident, we turn at last to the inspired Word, where instead of ambiguous and untrustworthy utterances, we find teachings distinct and definite, authoritative and infallible.

Arthur Tappan Pierson

#15. There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer.

Arthur Tappan Pierson

#16. Kill them all, for God knows His own.

Pope Innocent III

#17. Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person.

Donatella Versace

#18. Jesus stands absolutely alone in history; in teaching, in example, in character, an exception, a marvel, and He is Himself the evidence of Christianity.

Arthur Tappan Pierson

#19. Closet communion needs time for the revelation of God's presence. It is vain to say, "I have too much work to do to find time." You must find time or forfeit blessing. God knows how to save for you the time you sacredly keep for communion with Him.

Arthur Tappan Pierson

#20. It's nice to be in first place. But just because you're not on a winner doesn't mean you're a loser.

Joe Torre

#21. Partial examination will result in partial views of truth, which are necessarily imperfect; only careful comparisons will show the complete mind of God.

Arthur Tappan Pierson

#22. We have an amazing advantage right now in that we have developed technology that is so sexy, so engaging for kids.

LeVar Burton

#23. My synesthesia is mostly gone - it was a much bigger factor when I was a kid. But having no depth perception is a bonus when you're trying to lay out flat images and describe them to an artist - flat is all I see.

G. Willow Wilson

#24. Let him love none and be by none beloved!

Juvenal