Keeping Rules Quotes

#1. Nothing gives one a more spuriously good conscience than keeping rules, even if there has been a total absence of all real charity and faith.

C.S. Lewis

#2. Authentic Christianity is not just about keeping and protecting the faith and keeping the rules. It is even more than living to deepen your relationship with Jesus. Authentic Christianity, the real deal, is about embracing all of these important elements.

Joseph Stowell

#3. Most rules are made by people with no authority who want to control and limit you from reaching your true potential. Ignore them, break their rules, and wave at them as you soar past them to greatness.

Dan Pearce

#4. Question: "What do you most value in your friends?"
Answer: "Their continued existence.

Christopher Hitchens

#5. It was true. She was his soul's star. His heart ignited every time she came into the room, flared with every just-so gesture. Anything she touched became instantly talismanic.

Mark Kirkbride

#6. There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.

Bernard Malamud

#7. A whistle in the dark is still a whistle.

Gideon Levy

#8. Sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge ... There are two ways to be your own Savior and Lord. One is by breaking all the moral laws and setting your own course, and one is by keeping all the moral laws and being very, very good.

Timothy Keller

#9. Whether through an outwardly prideful life of breaking the rules or an inwardly prideful life of keeping the rules, we are people who have sought to avoid Jesus and run our own lives.

Justin Buzzard

#10. Despite what I said about staying the way we were, I changed. I, who have always believed in speaking my mind and made it my mission to uncover the truth, have found myself keeping secrets. Sometimes life is more complicated than the simple rules we make for it.

Elizabeth Chandler

#11. Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. What all disciplines have in common is a search for rules and a commitment to them. And what all great learners have is a deep appreciation for finding better rules and a commitment to keeping them. That is why great learners are careful about what commitments they make and then keeping them.

Henry B. Eyring

#13. I want to be one of the youngest actors ever to direct a feature. That would be a nice thing to hear. It might prove to be a bigger challenge than I can take, but that's the career I want, like George Clooney.

Tony Revolori

#14. You can't bring a duffel bag that says 'I Heart Cheese' on it, that's just offensive.

Lauren Barnholdt

#15. My personality is that I'm a human being like everybody else, just a citizen and a blue collar guy.

Lee Greenwood

#16. In his other hand is a spear made from duct tape, a smashed Nokia phone from 1998 and a selfie stick. Welcome to the future.

Warren Ellis

#17. No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child.

Charles Francis Richter

#18. The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right.

Confucius

#19. Love is full of anxious fears.

Ovid

#20. two-edged sword; Her feet go down

Wolf D. Storl

#21. I don't play monsters. I play men besieged by fate and out for revenge.

Vincent Price

#22. Following Jesus is not about diligently keeping a set of rules or conjuring up the moral fortitude to lead good lives. It's about loving God and enjoying Him

Francis Chan

#23. I do not fear death, for death transforms visionaries into martyrs; converts noble ideas into powerful movements.

Dan Brown

#24. Why has the word become such an uncomfortable one?

Emma Watson

#25. You see, the human creature is prone to legalism. There is nothing the devil likes more than to impose a set of legalistic rules on a person. Then when that person has a hard time keeping those rules, his confidence that God will move in his life is greatly shaken.

Dave Roberson

#26. I do assert that one prepares for eternity not by being religious and keeping the rules, but by living fully, loving wastefully, and daring to be all that each of us has the capacity to be.

John Shelby Spong

#27. Dr. Cross, please come! Please! Dr. Cross the loud shouts continued. I didn't recognize the woman's voice, but privacy doesn't seem to count when your first name is Doctor.

James Patterson

#28. You know, I like to think that I will subscribe very much to the core Republican principles of small government. Making a small number of rules and getting out of the way. Keeping taxes low. Creating an environment for small businesses to grow and thrive.

Meg Whitman

#29. I respect the rules of TV, the rules of keeping things commercial and interesting and pop-y and fun.

Joss Whedon

#30. It is possible to avoid Jesus as Savior as much by keeping all the Biblical rules as by breaking them.

Timothy Keller

#31. The cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of hell, the reward of heaven, but the rules of the holy books are out of date and often barbaric.

Richard Dawkins