Derwin Quotes

#1. His mother was as frosty as the polar icecaps. His sister was gone. Who did he have that cared about him? Who would remind him that he mattered?

Sofia Grey

#2. You are a trophy of God's grace. He has future accomplishments with your name written on them.

Derwin L. Gray

#3. Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.

Karl Barth

#4. The female asked him, "Have you ever been bait? Well, besides jailbait. Rowr." "I can't say that I have, ma'am." Texan accent?

Kresley Cole

#5. Being born again happens in an instant. Learning to live as a child of God takes a lifetime.

Derwin L. Gray

#6. Royce nodded. "Invest in crossbows. Next time stay hidden and just put a couple bolts into each of your target's chests. All this talking is just stupid."
"Royce!" Hadrian admonished.
"What? You're always saying I should be nicer to people. I'm trying to be helpful.

Michael J. Sullivan

#7. Even an organized person has days that aren't efficient and well-managed.

Deniece Schofield

#8. Local churches are ten times more segregated than the neighborhoods they are in and they are twenty times more segregated than the schools than the nearby schools.

Derwin L. Gray

#9. People live out of either the hurt they feel or the healing Jesus provides. Your parents will never be perfect. And you will never be a perfect parent. But there is a perfect God who, over time, will bring healing to hurtful circumstances.

Derwin L. Gray

#10. It's hard to sin if you're preoccupied with Jesus.

Derwin L. Gray

#11. God will crush the pride out of us one way or another. He loves us, and His glory, too much not to do it.

Derwin L. Gray

#12. Winter in Peking is insurpassable, unless indeed it is surpassed by the other seasons in that blessed city. For Peking is a city clearly marked by the seasons, each perfect in its own way and each different from the others.

Lin Yutang

#13. I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.

Zooey Deschanel

#14. The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.

Camille Paglia

#15. Only 13.7% of churches in America are consider multiethnic. This means that 86.3 % of churches are homogenous.

Derwin L. Gray

#16. Jesus' epic work through his sinless life, atoning death, resurrection, and ascension, and the sending of the Spirit, was so that God could have an ethnically diverse family of Jews and Gentiles.

Derwin L. Gray

#17. Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.

Edward De Bono

#18. 1 Timothy 3 lists only one gift, teaching, then follows w a list of character traits.

Derwin L. Gray

#19. I coach church planters to look at the ethnic diversity of schools and neighborhoods they are near. This will be an indicator how ethnically diverse their congregation can become.

Derwin L. Gray

#20. I wanted to build something that was a system - that was mechanical and would propagate itself like a virus. I needed a way for it spread from person to person, and the best way to do that was trying to get someone to get their friends to sign up.

Michael Birch

#21. You know what I figured out?"
I hate this part." Dr. Martin leaned back in his chair. "It means I'm about to lose income or I'm about to learn what a crappy shrink I am." (276)

Gail Giles

#22. When everything comes from Jesus, it is spiritual insanity to have any form of pride.

Derwin L. Gray

#23. You cannot cast a vision that has not cast a spell over you.

Derwin L. Gray

#24. They go forth [into the world] with well-developed bodies, fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart - not a cold one. The difference is important.

E. M. Forster

#25. We must, by God's grace, embody the vision. If not, we are duplicitous.

Derwin L. Gray

#26. Leaders are like point guards, we set people up to score.

Derwin L. Gray

#27. Substance and content over style and hype any day.

Derwin L. Gray

#28. We live in Houston, Texas!" Grandma wiped her hands with a rag. "You'd get heat stroke.

Ilona Andrews