Top 100 Mcdowell Quotes
#1. FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell has said that several foreign dignitaries personally spoke to him about creating a new Internet user fee to subsidize an international universal service fund at the expense of traditional end users.
Marsha Blackburn
#2. With Fred McDowell, I just love the way he articulates the notes. I'm hardly unique in that, but there's just something about that that I love.
Bill Orcutt
#3. McDowell has pointed to three common reasons people reject Christianity: pride, moral problems with how Christ would impact their lifestyles, and ignorance.
Alex Mcfarland
#4. never, never, ever force the patient to eat, as it will do them more harm than good, even though your intentions for their well-being are sincere and honorable.
Bob Mcdowell
#5. Well how can a holy, just, righteous God allow sin into His presence?
Josh McDowell
#6. My greatest platform is not with all my degrees, everything else, it's not all my books, everything. It's that I'm known as a man who loves his wife and spends time with his children. That opens more; I speak as a daddy.
Josh McDowell
#8. The downfall of the church will not come from a lack of apologetic teaching; it will come from disintegration of the families in the church.
Josh McDowell
#9. Benjamin Stallworth understood his shortcomings and was rendered unhappy by that understanding. He was upright enough to wish for correction but too weak to enforce it upon himself.
Michael McDowell
#10. I would say 90 percent of Christians do not have a worldview, in other words a view of the world, based on the Scripture and a relationship with God.
Josh McDowell
#12. Grace began to understand. "I have friends," she protested. "I have Zaddie."
"Zaddie is just a little colored girl," Mary-Love pointed out. "It's all right to play with Zaddie, but she's not your real friend. John Robert can be your real little friend.
Michael McDowell
#13. I would be perfectly willing if a publisher came up to me and said, "I need a novel about underwater Nazi cheerleaders and it has to be 309 pages long and I need fourteen chapters and a prologue.
Michael McDowell
#14. ESCAPING REALITY Whether it's watching YouTube videos, porn, or reaching for drugs or sex - constantly distracting yourself is a sign that you're not willing to deal with reality.
Howard McDowell
#16. The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place.
Josh McDowell
#17. Alcoholism is a disease," she said. "Like athlete's foot. Or herpes. It's nothing to be ashamed of. Luker and I have lots of friends who are alcoholics. And speed freaks too." "Well,
Michael McDowell
#18. I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.
Malcolm McDowell
#19. I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.
Malcolm McDowell
#20. Christianity is not a religion. Religion is humans trying to work their way to God through good works. Christianity is God coming to men and women through Jesus Christ.
Josh McDowell
#21. Where I once believed people were there to be used, I started thinking of other people first.
Josh McDowell
#22. We do not develop habits of genuine love automatically. We learn by watching effective role models - most specifically by observing how our parents express love for each other day in and day out.
Josh McDowell
#23. Once you commit to something, you've got to commit the whole way. Try and make the best of it.
Malcolm McDowell
#24. I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
Malcolm McDowell
#25. On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a half to two ton stone that had been lodged in front of the doorway.
Josh McDowell
#26. This is one of the most special golf courses in the planet.
Graeme McDowell
#27. I was the biggest, most hopeless and most violent drunk in baseball.
Sam McDowell
#29. Knowing that God is faithful, it really helps me to not be captivated by worry. But knowing that He will do what He has said, He will cause it to happen, whatever He has promised, and then it causes me to be less involved in worrying about a situation.
Josh McDowell
#30. While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.
Josh McDowell
#31. Here's the simplest answer: Within weeks, the disciples proclaimed the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that He had been bodily raised from the dead and appeared to them.
Josh McDowell
#32. The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous intellects who are very exciting to spend an evening with. I never see them as bad people.
Malcolm McDowell
#33. Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion.
Josh McDowell
#34. Merle Weaver stroked the little girl's hair and thought of the two corpses in the rear of the truck.
Michael McDowell
#35. Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.
Josh McDowell
#36. Perhaps if grown men were issued gold star stickers for proper behavior, there would be less crime.
Charlie McDowell
#37. I am not a Christian because God changed my life; I am a Christian because of my convictions about who Jesus Christ is.
Josh McDowell
#38. Paul the apostle recounted that Jesus appeared to more than 500 of His followers at one time, the majority of whom were still alive and who could confirm what Paul wrote.
Josh McDowell
#39. I would say much of religious heresy is the result of a misunderstanding of the basic nature of God. And once we have a proper understanding of God, then usually most of the areas of our life coincide with who God is and what He desires for each one of us.
Josh McDowell
#40. The Christian faith is faith in Christ. Its value or worth is not in the one believing but in the One believed - not in the one trusting, but in the One trusted.
Josh McDowell
#41. Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
Malcolm McDowell
#43. Palpatine sought power over others. Yoda sought power from within. Palpatine wanted control of everything, in the hopes of building what he thought would be a perfect universe. Yoda gave up the idea of controlling or perfecting the universe, in the hopes of understanding it.
Michael P. Kube-McDowell
#44. I've experienced every aspect of pitching. I know the reality of what these guys are going through. You can be going good, and the game is going to humble you. But the challenge is how to get through the difficult times.
Roger McDowell
#45. If one discards the Bible as being unreliable, then he must discard almost all literature of antiquity.
Josh McDowell
#46. The great thing about Burgess's work is the dichotomy of making the hero or anti-hero an immoral man. And that's what makes it interesting. Because, you know, you are sucked into kind of like this guy.
Malcolm McDowell
#47. I've always been one to do the work and just hone my craft.
Malcolm McDowell
#48. The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
Malcolm McDowell
#49. We no longer live in a post-Christian society, we live in an anti-Christian society, one in which the Christian faith is dismissed or ridiculed and Christians are considered suspect and their motives and behavior berated.
Josh McDowell
#50. I once had a lot of hatred, mainly toward my father, an alcoholic.
Josh McDowell
#51. Belief is knowing what you believe. Conviction is knowing why you believe it.
Josh McDowell
#52. One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place.
Malcolm McDowell
#53. The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas.
Malcolm McDowell
#54. Whenever you do judge, the only basis of judgment is not your own perspective or anything else, it's the very character and nature of God and that's why we are to allow Him to exercise His justice, where I personally want to take it upon myself.
Josh McDowell
#55. Someone once asked me what I thought horror fiction did. What its purpose was . . . I replied that when I wrote horror fiction, I tried to take the improbable, the unimaginable, and the impossible, and make it seem not only possible--but inevitable.
Michael McDowell
#56. My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.
Malcolm McDowell
#57. Truth is objective because God exists outside ourselves; it is universal because God is above all; it is constant because God is eternal. Absolute truth is absolute because it originates from the original.
Josh McDowell
#58. You better arm yourselves to answer your children's and grandchildren's questions ... no matter what the question is ... without being judgmental.
Josh McDowell
#59. Real greatness comes from that sort of spontaneity of the moment that takes it into another level. That can never be planned; it happens or it doesn't. And you can't force it.
Malcolm McDowell
#60. It's no fun throwing fastballs to guys who can't hit them. The real challenge is getting them out on the stuff they can hit.
Sam McDowell
#61. My heart and mind were created to work in harmony together. Never has an individual been called upon to commit intellectual suicide in trusting Christ as Savior and Lord.
Josh McDowell
#62. Every pastor, youth pastor, and every parent is in competition with the Internet and the information it is spreading. Most young people don't get their news from CNN or CBS; they get it from bloggers.
Josh McDowell
#63. Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.
Malcolm McDowell
#65. It's the sight of the dead...the teasing glimpse of what comes when you are no one.
Robert McDowell
#66. Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
Malcolm McDowell
#69. After more than 700 hours of studying this subject, and thoroughly investigating its foundation, I have come to the conclusion that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is one of the most wicked, vicious, heartless hoaxes ever foisted upon the minds of men, or it is the most fantastic fact of history
Josh McDowell
#70. As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking.
Josh McDowell
#71. One who claimed what Jesus claimed about himself couldn't be a good moral man or a prophet. That option isn't open to us, and Jesus never intended it to be.
Josh McDowell
#72. The only item that stood out was a pair of orange Crocs I bought one day when I was feeling particularly jaunty. I had a special distaste for these shoes, because I was 76 percent sure that I was dumped as a result of once wearing them.
Charles McDowell
#73. Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.
Malcolm McDowell
#74. I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design.
Josh McDowell
#75. My joy in life is not because I have not had any problems. I have joy because I have learned there is nothing too great for God's power to deal with, nor anything too small or insignificant for His love to be concerned about.
Josh McDowell
#76. Since God is the universal King, all creation is under His law. Kingship and law are inseparable. A king rules by means of his law, and the law of a king is the expression of his will, purpose, and plan for his realm.
Stephen Mcdowell
#77. She's got manners, but what has she got in the way of morals?" "Oh," said Luker blithely, "she and I don't have any morals. We have to get along with a scruple or two." "I
Michael McDowell
#78. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have,
Josh McDowell
#79. To have a family is real strange," said India thoughtfully. "All these people you wouldn't have anything to do with except that they're related to you.
Michael McDowell
#80. The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
Malcolm McDowell
#81. The most dangerous people are always clever, compelling, and charismatic.
Malcolm McDowell
#82. If someone tries to tell you you are the greatest generation in the history of America, don't believe them. You aren't. You have the capability to be, but you aren't.
Josh McDowell
#83. The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position.
Josh McDowell
#84. I sort of wish that was what happened though, Ginny, because that would mean the girl is all right. Fourteen-year-old girls have run off before."
Ginny eyed the sheriff severely. "Not fourteen-year-old girls who had grandmas like Evelyn Larkin.
Michael McDowell
#85. Sometimes I feel bad for the girls because they aren't exactly the sharpest tools in the shed. In fact, they're more like a couple of dull butter knives that were left in the grass outside of the shed.
Charlie McDowell
#86. Every kid needs to say, 'I want what my mom and dad have.'
Josh McDowell
#87. After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son.
Josh McDowell
#88. Mary-Love liked to see herself as the family cornucopia, dispensing all manner of good things, unstintingly, unceasingly. She considered herself amply rewarded by her children's gratitude, and if she perceived that her children were not sufficiently grateful, she could make something of that, too.
Michael McDowell
#89. Parents are heroes already - all they have to do is start acting like it.
Josh McDowell
#90. Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.
Josh McDowell
#91. No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary. No matter what happens to you, no matter the depth of tragedy or pain you face, no matter how death stalks you and your loved ones, the Resurrection promises you a future of immeasurable good.
Josh McDowell
#92. Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb.
Josh McDowell
#93. Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort have created a biblically sound course that will not only motivate Christians; it will equip them to fulfill the Great Commission.
Josh McDowell
#94. And among adults, adultery is an unmentionable thing, which only occurs in the Bible and in Mobile.
Michael McDowell
#95. They placed the board between them on the kitchen table, and Becca took the suddenly inspired precaution of sprinkling the planchette with holy water taken from a bottle in the pantry placed next to the vanilla extract.
Michael McDowell
#96. True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person ...
Josh McDowell
#97. I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.
Malcolm McDowell
#98. One reason product management is such an appealing career is you get to sit at the intersection of technology, business, and design.
Gayle Laakmann McDowell
#99. Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents.
Josh McDowell
#100. Love can wait to give; it is lust that can't wait to get.
Josh McDowell
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