Top 37 Kent Hughes Quotes
#1. This story means that we must live in full consciousness of the miracle of divine providence, understanding that God has total hands-on control of the world - and that all of life is to be lived for him without fear and with increasing expectation. R. Kent Hughes
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#2. The key to liberation from the power of materialism is not an exodus from culture - abandoning Wall Street or leaving the wealth of the nation to others - but the grace of giving ... Givers for God disarm the power of money. They invite God's grace to flow through them.
R. Kent Hughes
#4. Gossip involves saying behind a person's back what you would never say to his or her face. Flattery means saying to a person's face what you would never say behind his or her back.
R. Kent Hughes
#5. It's our job to put a good product out there, and fans will come. If they see a good product, a good style, fans will come.
Steve Alford
#7. Listen well, and you will be pronounced a "brilliant" conversationalist!
R. Kent Hughes
#8. Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its veri-fication. Its validity is the process of its valid-ation.
William James
#9. Exercise helps me with stress. It changes your brain chemistry. I turn to Ashtanga yoga when I feel the need to relax. I love it, but it's not right for everybody. It's taught to you a little bit at a time, according to your body type and your strength. That keeps things challenging.
Lisa Edelstein
#10. The Cross is the ultimate evidence that there is no length the love of God will refuse to go in effecting reconciliation.
R. Kent Hughes
#12. A deed--who measures it? Who knows the limits of a mended wheel or reckons up the leagues it shall lay underfoot?--what burdens it shall bear?--whose destiny it shall await and serve?
Talbot Mundy
#13. Tell me I'm not the only one who thought he'd set us up," he murmured.
"Totally imagined a huge dead end," I agreed.
We laughed with giddy relief as Sage emerged into the cave.
Hilary Duff
#14. Today, there is a whole generation of Christian men who are laughing at things that ought to make them weep, and not a few of them will suffer shipwreck, and some-the loss of their souls. Let the indiscriminate viewer beware.
R. Kent Hughes
#15. Television has greater power over the lives of most Americans than any educational system or government or church. It is the control center of most homes-more ubiquitous and more controlling than Orwell's Big Brother
R. Kent Hughes
#17. Often a star
was waiting for you to notice it. A wave rolled toward you
out of the distant path, or as you walked
under an open window, a violin
yielded itself to your hearing. All this was mission.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#18. A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.
R. Kent Hughes
#19. You do the big things by doing the little things right.
Stephen Cooper
#20. I had to learn - since I'm divorced now and everyone is like, 'Oh my God, you're single, what's going on?' - that if I don't like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy spending time with me? I'm getting to learn how to enjoy my solitude and have a good time.
Gabrielle Union
#21. A legalistic commitment to duration can kill one's prayer life.
R. Kent Hughes
#22. On the most elementary level, you do not have to go to church to be a Christian. You do not have to go home to be married either. But in both cases if you do not, you will have a very poor relationship.
R. Kent Hughes
#23. If you have to be right, you put yourself in a hedged lane, but once you experience the power of not having to be right, you will feel like you are walking across open fields, the perspective wide and your feet free to take any turn.
John Naisbitt
#24. The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving and praise in word and song.
R. Kent Hughes
#25. God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money.
R. Kent Hughes
#26. If we an become still and open-minded, we might all feel the unseen comforting hand on our shoulder letting us know we are not alone.
June Matthews
#27. The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle his tongue.
R. Kent Hughes
#28. A crucified Savior is not well served by self-pleasing, self-indulging people.
R. Kent Hughes
#29. One thing is certain: Nothing will set you apart from culture more than the exclusive claims of Christianity. And it is here that we must intentionally set ourselves apart-because if we do not, we will have no message for the world!
R. Kent Hughes
#31. I have gone to great lengths, and in some cases beyond what is required by the reporting guidelines to ensure all of my filings are beyond reproach, by hiring an independent third-party accounting firm to review and audit all of my previous annual financial disclosures.
Bob Corker
#32. Only the Lord knows how many children lose heart because their fathers have hard days.
R. Kent Hughes
#33. The key to ongoing effectiveness [in evangelism] is a perpetual freshness in your growing knowledge of Him.
R. Kent Hughes
#34. Men, if we are not praying in detail for our wives and children, we are sinning.
R. Kent Hughes
#35. I believe joy is a spiritual practice.
Brene Brown
#36. Fixing our thoughts on Jesus requires time, for true reflection cannot happen with a glance. No one can see the beauty of the country if he hurries through it on the interstate.
R. Kent Hughes
#37. There can be no burden for distant unreached peoples without a burden for unreached neighbors.
R. Kent Hughes
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