Paul Billheimer Quotes

#1. In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand.

Carine Roitfeld

#2. There is nothing absurd in the doctrine, that though man is justified by faith, he is himself not only not righteous, but the righteousness attributed to his works is beyond their own deserts.

John Calvin

#3. From heaven's standpoint, all spiritual victories are won not primarily in the pulpit, not primarily in the klieg light of publicity, nor yet through the ostentatious blaring of trumpets, but in the secret place of prayer.

Paul Billheimer

#4. Oh the wonderful knowledge to be found in the stars. Even the smallest things are written there ... if you had but skill to read.

Benjamin Franklin

#5. You'd think the homeless would despise the rest of us, but it seems the thing they want to do most is talk. If only they could sit us down and let it all spill out - every twist of their history, down to the last murmur - then they'd be cured.

Alexander Masters

#6. Any church program, no matter how impressive, if it is not supported by an adequate prayer program, is little more than an ecclesiastical treadmill. It is doing little or no damage to Satan's kingdom.

Paul Billheimer

#7. You may own a cat, but cannot govern one.

Kate Sanborn

#8. And die of nothing but a rage to live

Alexander Pope

#9. The prayer closet is the arena which produces the overcomer.

Paul Billheimer

#10. Intercession is the most unselfish thing anyone can do.

Paul Billheimer

#11. When a church is truly convinced that prayer is where the action is, that church will so construct its corporate activities that the prayer program will have the highest priority.

Paul Billheimer

#12. Pantheists creep into the ministry, but they are generally cunning enough to concede the bredath of their minds beneath Christian phraseology.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#13. The explanation is that prayer is not primarily God's way of getting things done. It is God's way of giving the church 'on the job training' in overcoming the forces hostile to God.

Paul Billheimer

#14. God designed the program of prayer as an 'apprenticeship' for eternal sovereignty with Christ.

Paul Billheimer

#15. Find individual programs that work, and support them. Find programs that don't work, and stop doing them.

Dean Karlan

#16. The problem in middle life, when the body has reached its climax of power and begins to decline, is to identify yourself not with the body, which is falling away, but with the consciousness of which it is a vehicle. This is something I learned from myths.

Joseph Campbell

#17. Surely that which occupies the total time and energies of heaven must be a fitting pattern for earth.

Paul Billheimer

#18. By seizing the opportunities that disruption presents and leveraging hard times into greater success through outworking/outinnovating/outthinking and outworking everyone around you, this just might be the richest time of your life so far.

Robin S. Sharma

#19. Satan does not care how many people read about prayer if only he can keep them from praying.

Paul Billheimer

#20. When it comes to fame, I am in a very convenient position. I live a very normal life.

Clemence Poesy

#21. Every mental state is also physical.

Siri Hustvedt