Phil Vischer Quotes

#1. I have learned a lot about myself and come to deal with a lot of things that, at first, bothered me.

Reba McEntire

#2. I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.

Steve Martin

#3. The most important thing is not the work I can do for God. The most important thing is to make God the most important thing.

Phil Vischer

#4. I realized I'm not supposed to be pursuing impact, I'm supposed to be pursuing God. And when I pursue God I will have exactly as much impact as He wants me to have.

Phil Vischer

#5. God is not calling us to work for Him. He is calling us to walk with Him.

Phil Vischer

#6. It is pretty clear in the Bible story that the whale swallowing Jonah wasn't meant as a punishment from God, it was God saving him from drowning. So it was actually provision to give him a second chance. The whale itself was the start of Jonah's second chance.

Phil Vischer

#7. This last night we tear into each other, as if to wound, as if to find the key to everything before morning.

Michael Ondaatje

#8. If God gives you a dream, and the dream comes to life and God shows up in it, and then the dream dies, it may be that God wants to see what is more important to you - the dream or him.

Phil Vischer

#9. Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.

Edoardo Ponti

#10. An odd outlook on life is the beginning of good comedic writing.

Phil Vischer

#11. VeggieTales is something that, on paper, makes no sense at all. It is a series of children's videos where limbless, talking vegetables act out Bible stories. Try raising money with that pitch.

Phil Vischer

#12. Beware of your dreams. They can become misplaced lovers. They can become idols.

Phil Vischer

#13. The messages our kids receive from teachers, coaches
and even, with the best intentions, from us - can push them toward pride or despair ... toward self-righteousness or self-hatred.

Phil Vischer

#14. Fairly early in life, I noticed my brain was weird. By that I mean that I noticed it had a way of looking at normal things from a slightly twisted angle
just twisted enough that it often made me chuckle.

Phil Vischer

#15. Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

John Locke

#16. Have you ever been tempted to start your own business- First read this cautionary tale, especially if you think your ideas come from God.

Phil Vischer

#17. When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals.

Winston Churchill

#18. I attribute my success to this: - I never gave or took an excuse.

Florence Nightingale

#19. I started writing an album on flights to Africa and Brazil, but it was crazy because I left the notebook on the plane. It had seven or eight songs in it. After that, I'm not writing any more songs on notebooks - and I keep my Blackberry close!

Estelle

#20. Creativity and expression of one's art can only be measured by the audience to whom it was intended for. Not everyone is going to like my "art" and I don't really care about that.

Anne-Rae Vasquez

#21. The world doesn't learn about God by watching Christian movies. The world learns about God by watching Christians.

Phil Vischer

#22. Our use of phrase 'The Dark ages' to cover the period from 699 to 1,000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe ...

Bertrand Russell

#23. Madness,' said Daniel. 'Americans. Playing spy games as the world falls apart.

Adam Baker

#24. I often wonder if I am entitled to be as happy as I am, given the amount of suffering in the world.

Dennis Prager