James Denney Quotes

#1. In the end, it doesn't matter, but I wanted you to know; I needed you to know because I read your text to Sarah. You told her I was everything you never thought you could have, and I'm telling you, you're everything I never knew I wanted, but I'm so glad you're here.

Cate Beauman

#2. No matter how well you perform, there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.

Laurence Olivier

#3. The Kingdom of Heaven is not for the well-meaning: it is for the desperate.

James Denney

#4. Poetry and beauty
are born out of pain.
This is their glory,
this is our gain.

S. Tarr

#5. I think Mariska Hargitay on 'Law and Order: SVU' is a really good example of a female lead I'd like to emulate.

Spencer Grammer

#6. The New Testament preaches a Christ who was dead and is alive, not a Christ who was alive and is dead.

James Denney

#7. Fitz, you are angry. I can feel it like storm waves lashing my shores.

Robin Hobb

#8. Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.

Irvine Welsh

#9. The depravity which sin has produced in human nature extends to the whole of it. There is no part of man's nature which is unaffected by it. Man's nature is all of a piece, and what affects it at all affects it altogether

James Denney

#10. We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. The need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#11. The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.

Plutarch

#12. In preaching you cannot produce at the same time the impression that you are clever and that Christ is wonderful.

James Denney

#13. No man can give at once the impressions that he himself is clever and that Jesus Christ is mighty to save.

James Denney

#14. If God has really done something in Christ on which the salvation of the world depends, and if He has made it known, then it is a Christian duty to be intolerant of everything which ignores, denies, or explains it away.

James Denney