George Arthur Buttrick Quotes

#1. We need deliberately to call to mind the joys of our journey. Perhaps we should try to write down the blessings of one day. We might begin; we could never end; there are not pens or paper enough in all the world.

George Arthur Buttrick

#2. When everyone zigs, zag. Life is all about trying to get somewhere first.

Alexa Von Tobel

#3. Where ever you go in is world
This rule always remains the same ...
Kindness Is Everything!

Timothy Pina

#4. Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and digging amongst rocks and then trying to convince people that what you're seeing justifies the conclusions you're making.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#5. As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed in genuine refinement.

George MacDonald

#6. For a man to argue, 'I don't go to church; I pray alone,' is no wiser than if he should say, 'I have no use for symphonies; I believe only in solo music.'

George Arthur Buttrick

#7. Intercession is more than specific: it is pondered: it requires us to bear on our heart the burden of those for whom we pray.

George Arthur Buttrick

#8. Prayer is not a vain attempt to change God's will; it is a filial desire to learn God's will and to share it. Prayer is not a substitute for work: it is the secret spring and indispensable ally of all true work.

George Arthur Buttrick

#9. Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

George Arthur Buttrick

#10. Life is essentially a series of events to be lived through rather than intellectual riddles to be played with and solved.

George Arthur Buttrick

#11. Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking; and its deepest mood is friendship held in reverence. So the daily prayer should end as it begins - in adoration.

George Arthur Buttrick

#12. I've seen a lot of friends who have a lot of great projects, whether it's a script or a play or whatever, and it is a great project and they have great people involved, and they can't make it.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#13. Most good things happen with time; especially music, which needs time to breathe and to find its own way.

Greg Ginn

#14. Why lock yourself in your own cage when someone is handing you a key?

Gregory Maguire

#15. All of nature was a record of crisis and destruction and adaptation and flourishing and being knocked back down again. What had happened on New Terra was singular and concrete, but the pattern it was part of seemed to apply everywhere and maybe always.

James S.A. Corey

#16. I am one who believes that the people's views and values are represented by those who they elect in the legislative branch and not unelected federal judges appointed for life.

George Allen

#17. It appears that when life is broken by tragedy God shines through the breach.

George Arthur Buttrick

#18. The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.

Bernard Malamud

#19. Faith is the response of our spirits to beckonings of the eternal.

George Arthur Buttrick

#20. Depression is pain in its purest form.

J.A. Redmerski