Top 100 Quotes About Abba
#1. The abba seems far more interested in the effect her presence will have on him than in the effect his teaching may have on her.
Kate Cooper
#2. Just wondering where you keep your ABBA collection.
S.E. Culpepper
#3. Abba Antony said, "Whatever you find in your heart to do in following God, that do, and remain within yourself in Him.
David Keller
#4. I spend a lot of time with the grandchildren. They love it when we sing together. It's fantastic to hear them, and they really can sing. I don't talk to them so much about 'Abba' and the past, but as they get older, they will become more aware.
Agnetha Faltskog
#5. It was about my spirit crying "Abba!" It was about years of hating the church for its hypocrisy and men for the way I'd always wanted my dad to hold me
Emily T. Wierenga
#6. I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.
Bono
#7. ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.
Lasse Hallstrom
#8. I wanted a name that would put us first in the phone directory, or second if you count ABBA.
Martin Fry
#9. My life is as good as an Abba song. It's as good as Dancing Queen.
Toni Collette
#10. It is such an innocent, intuitively discerning mind that helps make the Eastern guru and the Desert Abba "master". Where intimate Source radiates among non-Christians then surely we must be dealing with the "other sheep" manifesting the cosmic Christ.
Tilden Edwards
#11. I assume the Spirit is always whispering, "Abba", to God's children, assuring them that they are safe in His care. And he is continually calling them to become what God saved them to be, solid people, indestructibly alive, hurting perhaps, but consumed with pleasing the Father.
Larry Crabb
#12. Choose a single, sacred word or phrase that captures something of the flavor of your intimate relationship with God. A word such as Jesus, Abba, Peace, God or a phrase such as "Abba, I belong to you." ... Without moving your lips, repeat the sacred word inwardly, slowly, and often.
Brennan Manning
#13. Night falls over Machu Picchu to the sound of Abba's 'Dancing Queen'.
Michael Palin
#14. I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff.
Lasse Hallstrom
#15. I want people to remember ABBA as we were. I don't think that four geriatrics wheeled on stage is what we should leave as our legacy.
Bjorn Ulvaeus
#16. Every decade has its ABBA; that's the proof that pop will always be around.
Gerry Beckley
#17. I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba.
Pete Waterman
#18. As we follow Christ in the counsel of the Holy Spirit, resting in the love of our Abba, we no longer fear
for there is no fear in love. We do not fear slippery slopes, we do not fear each other, we do not fear change, and we do not fear our own selves or what other people can do to us.
Sarah Bessey
#19. When I was 25, Abba was formed. After Abba I made three solo albums. Maybe I have been productive enough.
Agnetha Faltskog
#20. Bronson always said that, of all the girls, Louisa was most like her mother, and he didn't mean it as a compliment. Both were mercurial, passionate, willful. Louisa had seen despair like Abba's from the inside. She had inherited it the way some daughters came into a silver tray or a set of spoons.
Kelly O'Connor McNees
#21. The Disco Group ABBA": They were beards and teeth and natural breasts and whiteness. I
Chuck Klosterman
#23. I grew up listening to most of my parents' music like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.
Tammin Sursok
#24. The life of Jesus suggests that to be like Abba is to show compassion.
Donald Gray expresses this: Jesus reveals in an exceptionally human life what it is to live a divine life, a compassionate life.
Brennan Manning
#25. ABBA was a direct influence on me.
Beth Ditto
#26. Someone once bought me loads of clothes from a charity shop - and sent them to me in a black bin liner. That was weird. I went through it and it was full of bizarre outfits like Abba costumes.
Suzanne Shaw
#27. I believe in God - not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.
Pope Francis
#28. I don't own an ABBA album, and I never had the urge to go and buy one. If you're just talking about well crafted pop songs, they were fantastic.
Phil Collins
#29. I remember Tim telling me that he had an idea for a musical and he said to me that he was hoping that ABBA would be writing the music, which I thought was a pretty wild idea because they were obviously known very much as pop writers.
Elaine Paige
#30. Of course, we wore silly outfits, the pictures were corny, and some people still focus on that. But ABBA wasn't a big intellectual thing. We were a pop group.
Bjorn Ulvaeus
#31. When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.
Serj Tankian
#32. In a way, I'm kind of a bystander looking at this phenomenon that is ABBA, which is still around, and that I thought would be finished in 1981 and forgotten. I'm amazed how this could happen, and I don't know why it happened. I'm just grateful and humble. I just sit back and enjoy.
Bjorn Ulvaeus
#33. Oh...I cant. I cant dance."
"What, not at all? Not even when you hear ABBA?"
"I do my very best not to hear ABBA.
Alexis Hall
#35. The death of Jesus Christ on the cross is His greatest single act of unwavering trust in His Abba's love. He plunged into the darkness of death, not fully knowing what awaited Him, confident that somehow, some way, His Abba would vindicate Him.
Brennan Manning
#36. You're not really supposed to like ABBA in Sweden. It's nerdy.
Izabella Scorupco
#37. Abba songs, as anyone who knows knows, are constructed, technically and harmonically, so as to physically imprint the human brain as if biting it with acid, to ensure we will never, ever, ever, be able to forget them.
Ali Smith
#38. I was overjoyed when I was offered the title role in 'Well Done Abba.' I was ready for the role even before I heard the story because you don't ask questions when it is Shyam Benegal's film. It is the chance of a lifetime.
Boman Irani
#39. He turned, arching an eyebrow at Dex. "ABBA?"
"What kind of gay man are you?" Dex thrust a finger toward the door. "Out of my house. Your kind isn't welcome here.
Charlie Cochet
#40. For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father." The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children.
Jerry Bridges
#41. I was so tired once 'Abba' was over and just wanted to be calm and with my children. I married, was in 'Abba,' had my children, divorced, all in ten years. I wonder how I managed it, but I was young.
Agnetha Faltskog
#42. Papa said that the parish priest in Abba was not spiritual enough. That was the problem with our people, Papa told us, our priorities were wrong; we cared too much about huge church buildings and mighty statues. You would never see white people doing that.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#43. All the big pop acts that I've been into over the years - whether it's ABBA or Prince - managed to combine amazing melodies and honest human emotion. But coming out of the super-super-commerical pop industry in the 90s, maybe people forgot about the fact that pop music can do both of those things.
Robyn
#44. Critics used to say that ABBA were formulaic or that our songs were rubbish. We never had time for those comments, though. We were sincere and devoted to what we did.
Bjorn Ulvaeus
#45. Priscilla, Queen of the Desert needed ABBA to invent gay Australians. The
Chuck Klosterman
#46. This child-like spirit soon perceives the grandeur of the Father "in heaven," and ascends to devout adoration, "Hallowed be Thy name." The child lisping, "Abba, Father," grows into the cherub crying, "Holy, Holy, Holy.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#47. I love Donna Summer, and I love ABBA. I love late '70s disco. I love the Bee Gees. I just love that period of recording.
Taylor Hawkins
#48. That is the kind of shocking accessibility conveyed in Jesus' word Abba. God may be the Sovereign Lord of the Universe, but through his Son, God has made himself as approachable as any doting human father.
Philip Yancey
#49. Prayer is more than thoughts and feelings expressed in words. It is the opening of mind and heart - our whole being to God our Abba Father. It is Divine Union.
Richard J. Foster
#50. Abba Dorotheos said: No matter what kind of sorrow comes to you, don't blame anyone but yourself, and say, "This has happened because of my sins."
Ignatius Bryanchaninov
#51. He descends upon the chosen as upon the Lord in Jordan, and bears witness to their sonship by working in them a filial spirit by which they cry Abba, Father.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#52. When I was eight, my pals and I went up to my bedroom, put on our party frocks and mimed to ABBA records using broom handles as microphones.
Kylie Minogue
#53. When ABBA broke up, I assumed our music would fall into oblivion so in the early 90's with BJRN AGAIN becoming popular and when U2 invited Benny and I on stage to sing Dancing Queen, I just assumed we were being sent up. But now I see they were paying tribute to us
Bjorn Ulvaeus
#54. Abba, you may not like it, but what I'm doing is important. If you don't agree, then I'm sorry. I can't do anything about it.
Farahad Zama
#55. he said, z "Abba, Father, a all things are possible for you. Remove b this cup from me. c Yet not what I will, but what you will.
Anonymous
#56. Abba Macarius said, 'If you rebuke someone and do it with anger, you have allowed a passion to control you. You have not saved anyone and have destroyed yourself'.
Tim Vivian
#57. Today on planet Earth, may you experience the wonder and beauty of yourself as Abba's Child and temple of the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ
Brennan Manning
#58. The moment the rickshaw stopped, your abba said, 'This is Vanity Bagh, where we will build our home and make it heaven-like.
Anees Salim
#59. In the beginning of my career, I wanted to be chased by girls more than anything - that's why I got the guitar. By the time we were in ABBA, the music was the only important thing.
Bjorn Ulvaeus
#60. Father? Abba, Father! He who can say this, hath uttered better music than cherubim or seraphim can reach. There is heaven in the depth of that word
Father! There is all I can ask; all my necessities can demand; all my wishes can desire.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#61. I promise you, ABBA will never reform - I couldn't bear the stress of disappointing everyone.
Bjorn Ulvaeus
#62. I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
Camilla Lackberg
#63. In times of need I call unto you Abba Father and you answer.
Euginia Herlihy
#64. It is through such failure and weeping that the Abba of Jesus conforms us to the image of His Son. Yet if our faith is not alive and dynamically operative, suffering is absurd, pointless.
Brennan Manning
#65. The gospel doesn't erase our past, but it drastically changes our future with a living hope. The gospel gives us the opportunity to be healed and to know God as our Abba Father. With our adoption into God's family comes a radically new life.
Johnny Carr
#66. You seem so far away though you are standing near.
You made me feel alive, but something died I fear.
I really tried to make it out, I wish I understood.
What happened to our love, it used to be so good.
Bjorn Ulvaeus
#67. The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other.
Abba Louisa Goold Woolson
#68. Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.
Abba Eban
#69. It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.
Abba Eban
#70. History teaches us
that men and nations
only behave wisely
once they have exhausted
all other alternatives.
Abba Eban
#71. Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony.
Abba Louisa Goold Woolson
#72. I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
Abba Eban
#73. Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives
Abba Eban
#74. Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
Abba Eban
#75. Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
Abba Eban
#77. Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
Abba Eban
#78. One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.
Abba Eban
#79. I wanted to be born at the farthest limit of the world. I'll explore it, I said to myself, biting big chunks from it. And when I want, I'll go straight to the core. This is the way of the world I thought in my innocence, round and around the layers of peel until the taste becomes certain.
Abba Kovner
#80. Who can live without it? I ask in all honesty, what would life be, without a song or a dance what are we?
ABBA
#81. American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.
Abba Louisa Goold Woolson
#82. Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.
Abba Eban
#83. God's desire is to not only have you experience His love, but to totally overwhelm you with His love. To have you experience it to overflowing. To have you sense, feel, taste, and touch His love for you. He really wants you to experience Him!
Linda Boone
#84. A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
Abba Eban
#85. The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.
Abba Eban
#86. For the curse of Cain, the curse of being an outcast and a wanderer over the face of the earth has been removed ...
Abba Hillel Silver
#88. Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
Abba Eban
#89. Women have in their natures something akin to owls and fireflies. While men grow stupid and sleepy towards evening, they become brighter and more open-eyed, and show a propensity to flit and sparkle under the light of chandeliers.
Abba Louisa Goold Woolson
#90. His ignorance is encyclopedic.
Abba Eban
#91. You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.
Abba Eban
#92. Indifference to one's own faith is no proof of tolerance. Loyalty to one's own is part of a larger loyalty to faith generally.
Abba Hillel Silver
#93. Heart-to-heart journaling is a dialogue with God where both you and God are talking and you are recording it on paper. Heart-to-heart journaling is simply writing out your thoughts to God and what you sense to be His answer or response to you.
Linda Boone
#94. If Algeria introduced a resolution that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
Abba Eban
#95. Better to be disliked than pitied.
Abba Eban
#96. Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.
Abba Eban
#97. Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.
Jean-Luc Godard
#98. Soaking" seems like a crazy word in an intimacy book. Yet that is exactly what you want to do in your relational time with Him, you want to "soak in and soak up" His presence, "soak in and soak up" His love.
Linda Boone
#99. Soaking is also positioning yourself for an encounter with God, to be with Him. You do the positioning, He does the encounter.
Linda Boone
#100. Zionism is nothing more, but also nothing less, than the Jewish People's sense of origin and destination in the Land linked eternally with its name. It is also the instrument whereby the Jewish Nation seeks an authentic fulfillment of itself.
Abba Eban
