Paul E Billheimer Quotes

#1. So much the better. The higher the price you have to pay, the more you will cherish it.

Lloyd C. Douglas

#2. As for me, I longed to love as some people long to cry. I felt that every hour I slept now would be an hour stolen from life.

Albert Camus

#3. I have not had any plastic surgery in any shape or form. No implants. And my hair is not dyed.

Pierce Brosnan

#4. 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

#5. To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils.

Socrates

#6. Some decisions in life naturally lead to an unhappy ending, leaving you sinking by degrees in a lake of quicksand. And, unless someone reaches to pull you out, chances are you will drown in the consequences.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#7. I loved Frances Hodgson Burnett, who wrote 'The Little Princess' and 'The Secret Garden.' And I loved the 'Little House on the Prairie' books by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Mary Pope Osborne

#8. 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

#9. I'm always yours, Rule. I will so totally marry you and it would make me happier than anything in the entire world to be an Archer. I don't need a ring or a speech. All I ever need is you.

Jay Crownover

#10. There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.

Hans Rosling

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

Paul Billheimer

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

Paul Billheimer

#13. Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.

Nathan Myhrvold

#14. 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

#15. 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

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

Paul Billheimer

#17. It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#18. Like some winter animal the moon licks the salt of your hand,
Yet still your hair foams violet as a lilac tree
From which a small wood-owl calls.

Johannes Bobrowski

#19. The incredulous are the more credulous. They believe the miracles of Vespasian that they may not believe those of Moses.
[Fr., Incredules les plus credules. Ils croient les miracle de Vespasien, pour ne pas croire ceux de Moise.]

Blaise Pascal

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

Paul Billheimer

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

Paul Billheimer

#22. Every species has its pub.

Rhys Ifans

#23. I know these trees by their feel and their scent. I don't have to turn on my light to know them. The wind blows through the trees. The leaves and needles shake. Almost I feel the wind is sweeping through me as well.

Ned Hayes