Top 100 Mcgrath Quotes
#1. Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life.
David Rockefeller
#2. Detective Lincoln knocked, said, "McGrath had serious encryption on his computer. We're going to have to send it out." "Send it to Quantico," I said. "I'll try to get it moved to the front of the line." "Right away," Lincoln said, and he left.
James Patterson
#3. Alister McGrath has now written two books with my name in the title. The poet W. B. Yeats, when asked to say something about bad poets who made a living by parasitizing him, wrote the splendid line, 'was there ever dog that praised his fleas?
Richard Dawkins
#4. Katie McGrath got me hooked on the 'Great British Bake Off.' It's ruining my life.
Jessica De Gouw
#5. Glenn McGrath had a reasonable career in Australia.
Andrew Strauss
#6. Charles Kiss is a legendary James Bond-style British spy. And McGrath is the young idealist who is given the task of following in his footsteps. It's a mission that forces McGrath to question everything he thought he believed in.
Peter Milligan
#7. England have no McGrathish bowlers, there are hardly any McGrathish bowlers, except for [Glenn] McGrath
Stuart Law
#8. If I could perform on stage with any musical act or performer, it would be Sugar Ray, just to fulfill my childhood dream of singing with Mark McGrath.
Chelsea Kane
#10. All the important things in life lie beyond reason ... and that's just the way things are.
Alister E. McGrath
#11. It doesn't matter how long you're here for, or what accomplishments you have, it matters what you do with that time and the type of person that you are.
Joel T. McGrath
#12. Mere Christianity allows us to understand Christian ideas; the Narnia stories allow us to step inside and experience the Christian story and judge it by its ability to make sense of things and "chime in" with our deepest intuitions about truth, beauty, and goodness. If
Alister E. McGrath
#15. However, unschooling doesn't imply that a child doesn't take classes or participate in structured learning activities. It means that we, the parents, don't attempt to make our children learn by giving assignments or otherwise manipulating or threatening them into learning and doing things.
Sara McGrath
#16. It is a fact: Of all the people we ever know in our lifetime, the only thing we have in common with them is a handful of shared experiences.
Joel T. McGrath
#17. Faith is not something that goes against the evidence, it goes beyond it. The evidence is saying to us, 'There is another country. There is something beyond mere reason'.
Alister E. McGrath
#19. The uncanny first impression was again one of private hells coexisting in public space.
Patrick McGrath
#20. Humans are easy to read, because what they're not saying speaks volumes.
Joel T. McGrath
#21. I love to perform. I've never lost the urge. I've never once been on stage when I didn't want to be.
Mark McGrath
#22. True love involves a willingness to change, to become more like the ones we love. Love is dynamic, not static. God may accept us just as we are - but he isn't going to leave us there. God wants to move us on, to help us become the people we are meant to be.
Alister E. McGrath
#23. Apologetics is about persuading people that there is a door to another world - a door that perhaps they never realized existed. Evangelism is about helping people to open that door and enter into the new world that lies beyond.
Alister E. McGrath
#24. The hallmark of intelligence is not whether one believes in God or not, but the quality of the processes that underlie one's beliefs.
Alister E. McGrath
#25. Surely the better way is to pursue a generous orthodoxy, seeing disagreements in the context of the greater agreements which bind us together.
Alister E. McGrath
#26. I don't like pink and I am not into girlie stuff, bows and frills, sugary looking things.
Katie McGrath
#28. If there is no ultimate reality, it's pointless to think about how we might get there.
Alister E. McGrath
#29. I am really terrible when it comes to guys. Inside, I just see myself as this overweight tomboy with funny-coloured hair and bad skin.
Katie McGrath
#31. Isn't it daft? We make millions off people buying fuel and burning it, creating the greenhouse gases that caused these hurricanes to happen, sending prices back up for us to make millions off again.")
Leah Mcgrath Goodman
#32. Puzzles lead to logical answers; mysteries often force us to stretch language to its limits in an attempt to describe a reality that is just too great to take in properly.
Alister E. McGrath
#34. They taught me longing - Sehnsucht; made me for good or ill, and before I was six years old, a votary of the Blue Flower.
Alister E. McGrath
#35. One day I'd love a house in the country, with some chickens, dogs and kids.
Katie McGrath
#36. Journalists are more powerful now than they've ever been, and we all know what power does. Anyone who disses the media is really asking for it. But it is the case that the journalists are what they are - world famous for vulgarity, alcoholism, spite.
Charles McGrath
#37. True love propels a person to great feats all without so much as a word.
Joel T. McGrath
#38. I struggle with the person I am, while the person I hope to be is like the stars, brilliantly radiant, yet for some reason, out of reach.
Joel T. McGrath
#39. I'm a very ambitious girl. I'll go wherever there is a good part.
Katie McGrath
#40. The intrinsic and extrinsic heart is always at odds, so which heart is yours? For one will bask in true joy, while the other lives in self-loathing misery.
Joel T. McGrath
#41. I don't get recognized in England. Not at all. Every so often, I get recognized in other countries.
Katie McGrath
#43. Perhaps that's the whole point about infidelity, I suggested, not that one has sex but that by doing so one puts at risk someone else's happiness?
Patrick McGrath
#44. What he lacks in intelligence he makes up for with ego.
Jim McGrath
#45. Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able to recover this image through grace as we are conformed to Christ.
Alister E. McGrath
#46. Sometimes opinions should kept to ones self, but not in appropriate situations. Be the judge of the appropriate situation, and be prepared for backfire. Moral of the story; if everyone doesn't agree, then prepare for them to lash out in disagreement.
Liam McGrath
#47. I went through a real punk stage-I had braids, red hair, pink hair, green hair, I cut it into a Mohawk, the lot. Then about five years ago, I dyed it dark and stayed out of the sun to get pale, because I hated looking like everyone else, all blonde hair and tanned skin.
Katie McGrath
#48. With acting, there are a lot of subtleties and non-verbals involved. If someone is over there, getting eaten by a shark, there's a non-verbal way of how to act that. There's a certain nuance to acting that does not come intuitively to me. It's something I still have to learn.
Mark McGrath
#49. God's existence may not be proved, in the hard rationalist sense of the word. Yet it can be affirmed with complete sincerity that belief in God is eminently reasonable and makes more sense of what we see in the world, discern in history, and experience in our lives than its alternatives.
Alister E. McGrath
#50. Good does not triumph unless good people rise to the challenges around them.
Alister E. McGrath
#51. I tend to write poetry that is rich in data of various sorts. The lyric poem isn't perfectly suited to accommodating such data, so I've had to find new ways to say everything that I want to say.
Campbell McGrath
#52. Without the advent of printing, there would have been no Reformation, and there might well have been no Protestantism either.
Alister E. McGrath
#53. You can have all the words in the world,but if not said rightly, those words are simply wasted potential.
Joel T. McGrath
#54. My mum's amazing - every time I achieve something in my career, she buys me a diamond earring.
Katie McGrath
#55. A CSV is the answer to three absolutely basic questions: Where do we want to go? How will we get there? And why do we think we will be successful?
Michael E. McGrath
#56. For Christian writers, religious faith is not a rebellion against reason, but a revolt against the imprisonment of humanity within the cold walls of a rationalist dogmatism.
Alister E. McGrath
#57. I go for really smart guys, ones who are well-read and can banter and argue. Men need to be able to take me out and have a few drinks, but by the end of the night we'll be talking about Nietzsche.
Katie McGrath
#58. Governments are just large corporations, and large corporations are just small governments.
Joel T. McGrath
#59. Last time I was on the welcome Wagon, I was holding some guy by the balls for 15 minutes while the inspector explained why should leave (Birmingham) and go home... It were really painful.
I bet it was.
'Yeah I got terrible cramp in me fingers, but he were very attentive.
Jim McGrath
#60. None of the original love and feel for going on stage is gone. I'm not a true singer. I'm performer, and I need to be on stage.
Mark McGrath
#61. Since cable got the power and freedom it has, you can explore someone in a way you couldn't in the old days when Mannix was Mannix was Mannix. I thought maybe that Nixon would be an interesting series.
Douglas McGrath
#62. We live in a world of competing narratives. In the end, we have to decide for ourselves which is right. And having made that decision, we then need to inhabit the story we trust.
Alister E. McGrath
#63. Sehwag is the most unpredictable batsman i have ever seen in my career
Glenn McGrath
#64. Whether it's five people or 50,000 people, I always love to perform and feel very blessed that I'm able to do that.
Mark McGrath
#65. Dhoni has the respect of all other playing. nations. I've found him to be a really strong. leader
Glenn McGrath
#66. Suffering does not call into question the "big picture" of the Christian faith. It reminds us that we do not see the whole picture, and are thus unable to fit all of the pieces neatly into place.
Alister E. McGrath
#67. One of the best introductions to the history and ideas of Calvinism, packed with insight and wisdom.
Alister E. McGrath
#68. To reenchant nature is not merely to gain a new perspective for its integrity and well-being; it is to throw open the doors to a deeper level of existence.
Alister E. McGrath
#69. Soon enough the tears came but of course nobody came down to see if she was all right, it was just the slut in the kitchen who'd ruined their lives, getting drunk of neat gin and howling for her lost lunatic offer.
Patrick McGrath
#70. The Christian faith allows us to see further and deeper, to appreciate that nature is studded with signs, radiant with reminders, and emblazoned with symbols of God, our creator and redeemer.
Alister E. McGrath
#71. Photography is an itch that wont go away. No matter how much you scratch it.
Dara McGrath
#72. Every day is the beginning of your career.
Pat McGrath
#73. Various pieces of huge dark furniture constricted the passage, and the place smelled of boiled fish. I was shown into the parlor, where the gloom of that overcast day was filtered through windows curtained in dingy lace.
Patrick McGrath
#74. Isolated people, those who live alone, are always conscious of their condition in the homes of families.
Patrick McGrath
#75. One of the great themes of the Christian Bible is that, whenever God asks us to do something for him, he gives us the gifts we need to do it. Knowing us for what we are, he equips us for what he wants us to do.
Alister E. McGrath
#76. Your treachery is what I have come to expect. And my heart, you never deserved its affection.
Joel T. McGrath
#77. Comic books are what novels used to be - an accessible, vernacular form with mass appeal - and if the highbrows are right, they're a form perfectly suited to our dumbed-down culture and collective attention deficit.
Charles McGrath
#78. Harmy is a class bowler and I think he's one of the main reasons why England have improved over the last 18 months.
Glenn McGrath
#79. If worldviews or metanarratives can be compared to lenses, which of them brings things into the sharpest focus? This is not an irrational retreat from reason. Rather, it is about grasping a deeper order of things which is more easily accessed by the imagination than by reason.
Alister E. McGrath
#80. The first thing I ever wanted to be was a backup singer for Guns 'n' Roses.
Katie McGrath
#81. Lewis created a new kind of marriage between theological reflection and poetic imagination.
Alister E. McGrath
#82. Lewis at his best is about trying on ways of looking at the world.
Alister E. McGrath
#83. When your heart is in your dreams, no request is too extreme. Jiminy Cricket
Never, never, never give up. Winston Spencer Churchill
Sheelagh McGrath
#84. The human quest for beauty is thus really a quest for the source of that beauty, which is mediated through the things of this world, not contained within them.
Alister E. McGrath
#85. To broaden one's prospective is to push back the swirling winds of ignorance.
Joel T. McGrath
#86. The joy he brings to the millions of his countrymen, the grace with which he handles all the adulation and the expectations and his innate humility - all make for a one-in-a-billion individual.
Glenn McGrath
#87. The God Delusion is a rather disorganized collage of arguments and pastiche of assertions which cannot be said to advance those ideas or enhance their critical edge, but rather harnesses them in the service of the advocacy of atheism.
Alister E. McGrath
#88. The scary thing is that this band was founded in 1988, and back then it was Guns N' Roses, L.A. Guns and , like, 'What chick am I gonna be with tonight?' - it was that mentality, you know, around a keg.
Mark McGrath
#89. It may be, too, that the task Heidegger sets for himself in Being and Time is in fact impossible. Heidegger's abandonment of the project one-third of the way through may itself be a formal indication of the impossibility of providing adequate philosophical terms for life as we live it.
S.J. McGrath
#90. Our conversations were like sex, our sex like conversation.
Patrick McGrath
#91. When you become a commodity to a record label because you're making them millions of dollars, you can take all of your artistic integrity and throw it out the window.
Mark McGrath
#92. Lewis began to realize that atheism did not - and could not - satisfy the deepest longings of his heart or his intuition that there was more to life than what was seen on the surface.
Alister E. McGrath
#93. Poetry resonates differently in each culture; it doesn't in America.
Campbell McGrath
#95. For 'tis green, green, green, where the ruined towers are gray, And it's green, green, green, all the happy night and day; Green of leaf and green of sod, green of ivy on the wall, And the blessed Irish shamrock with the fairest green of all.
Mary Elizabeth McGrath Blake
#96. If I could have picked an era to have lived, I think I would've loved to have been one of Louis XIV's mistresses. They were so fantastic and aristocratic, and they had so much power. And he was such a renaissance man. I think I would've fit into that nicely.
Katie McGrath
#97. For Luther, it (faith) is an undeviating, trusting outlook appointment life, a constant stance of the trustworthiness of the promises of God.
Alister E. McGrath
#98. My friend once sculpted me a bust of Admiral Ackbar from 'Star Wars.' He's my favourite character in the films after Han Solo. He's that goldfish-type alien in the white costume. 'It's a trap!' I'm a big geek.
Katie McGrath
#99. No actor can play a villain if they don't sympathise with him or her - otherwise the character just becomes a two-dimensional caricature.
Katie McGrath
#100. The cruel-hearted love upon the wind and dash feelings until none are left.
Joel T. McGrath
