Oral Roberts Quotes

#1. I don't need politicians doing a 24-hour prayer with Oral Roberts to get our country back on track.

Lewis Black

#2. Twentieth century history of Christianity will name Oral Roberts as the voice that brought the Pentecostal movement to be taken seriously by mainline Christianity.

Robert H. Schuller

#3. Oral Roberts is a greed-crazed white-trash lunatic who should have been hung upside down from a telephone pole on the outskirts of Tulsa 44 years ago, before he somehow transmogrified into the money-sucking animal that he became when he discovered television.

Hunter S. Thompson

#4. Oral Roberts was a man of God and a great friend in ministry. I loved him as a brother.

Billy Graham

#5. Well, I can't figure out God.

Oral Roberts

#6. If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.

Imelda May

#7. Faith is not something you have to get. It's something that you, as a bornagain child of God, already have. Act on it by releasing it to God. That's when your healing starts!

Oral Roberts

#8. It was so difficult for the fans to understand my problems with baseball.

Curt Flood

#9. I am charismatic with roots of the Pentecostal.

Oral Roberts

#10. How can you grow with your present to get ready for your future if you continue to live in your past and all that it contains.

Angelica Stevenson

#11. When there is not a trace of worldly love that is called 'absolute ultimate love' [paramarth prem]!

Dada Bhagwan

#12. [ ... ] I could not go on for ever so: I want to enjoy my own faculties as well as to cultivate those of other people. I must enjoy them now; don't recall either my mind or body to the school; I am out of it and disposed for full holiday.

Charlotte Bronte

#13. At the end of the day, what have I got? A successful Singapore. What have I given up? My life.

Lee Kuan Yew

#14. We make our own truths and lies ... Truths are often lies and lies truths ...

Bernhard Schlink

#15. God is a good God, and the Devil is a bad Devil.

Oral Roberts

#16. The important thing is not the size of your faith - it is the One behind your faith - God Himself.

Oral Roberts

#17. Lehi and his people arrive in the promised land

Joseph Smith Jr.

#18. All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.

John Irving

#19. Dost though even know what would become of me? Thou dost not." She exhaled sharply. "Friends would disown me. It is our way. I would be alone!"

"No," he said unexpectedly. He turned and held his hand to her, palm upward, empty, a simple masculine offering. "Maddygirl. With...me.

Laura Kinsale

#20. When the mind loses its density, you become translucent, like the flower. Spirit - the formless - shines through you into the world.

Eckhart Tolle

#21. This was a practical application of the principle that a half-feigned and fictitious faith is better than no faith at all.

Thomas Hardy

#22. Remember, only what you give can God multiply back. If you give nothing, and even if God were to multiply it, it would still be nothing!

Oral Roberts

#23. Life's too short to eat anywhere else.

Ruth Fertel

#24. God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.

Oral Roberts

#25. ORU is a daring new concept in higher education. It was planned to be from the beginning, one that would be able and willing to innovate change in all three basic aspects of your being - the intellectual, the physical and the spiritual.

Oral Roberts

#26. Something GOOD is going to happen to you today.

Oral Roberts

#27. Your faith begins to move, to act, when the power of God supernaturally empties you of doubt and fills you with a knowing. You come into a state of knowing that you know that you know. In that instant you cannot doubt.

Oral Roberts

#28. Men who are driven are happy in their work and their vision but are not happy-go-lucky. Evelyn has a happiness and contentment most of the time
she's my balance.

Oral Roberts

#29. I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

Kate Adie

#30. Hope is cruel. Hope reminds me of what almost was. Hope makes the physical ache return.

Harlan Coben