Quotes About Balaam

#1. [On refusing to be silenced:] I do not pretend to be John the Baptist rebuking the Pharisees. I do not claim to be Nathan upbraiding David. I aspire only to be Balaam's ass, castigating his master.

Katharina Zell

#2. This was the man, this Balaam, I say, was the man, who desired to die the death of the righteous, and that his last end might be like his; and this was the state of his mind when he pronounced these words.

Joseph Butler

#3. Granted, God is sovereign and can speak as he pleases - through a proof text, a poem, or Balaam's donkey. But we do not regularly seek out donkeys to tell us how to live.

Craig S. Keener

#4. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Jane Austen

#5. Balaam's ass is the patron saint of apologists. Madness, as we shall see, is an appropriate term for the unreality of unbelief.

Os Guinness

#6. Having true compassion for people isn't about the words that are spoken and the actions that are done. Having true compassion is an attitude from the heart that can't be faked.

Anna M. Aquino

#7. A man's personality is matured only when he appropriates the truth, whether it is spoken by Balaam's ass or a sniggering wag or an apostle or an angel.

Soren Kierkegaard

#8. In order to get some help in your love walk, all you have to do is ask God to let you see these people through His eyes.

Anna M. Aquino

#9. We've become very good in our churches today at faking our concern when really we couldn't care less about the people around us.

Anna M. Aquino

#10. In all common ordinary cases, we see intuitively at first view what is out duty, what is the honest part. This is the ground of the observation, that the first thought is often the best. In these cases, doubt and deliberation is itself dishonesty; as it was in Balaam upon the second message.

Joseph Butler

#11. You are so close, and I can't reach you.

David Levithan

#12. Selfishness is the root of all jealousy. When we are caught up thinking about ourselves, we can't think about anyone else.

Anna M. Aquino

#13. In today's society, Christians have a bad rap for things like holding picketing signs, screaming mantras of hate, and bombing abortion clinics. Somehow, I don't think that's showing love.

Anna M. Aquino

#14. Maturity is learning not to be run by your emotions. You control your emotions; they don't control you.

Anna M. Aquino

#15. How we lavish our money and worship on Shakespeare without in the least knowing why!

George Bernard Shaw

#16. No matter what happens, we'll always be together, always find a way to locate each other. No matter which guise my soul decides to wear, I will always return to you. Just like I always have returned to you.

Alyson Noel

#17. Coldplay's ultimately show-stopping opus "Fix You" might never have seen the light of day had Chris given up and caved in when Guy politely asked of him one morning: "So, 'tears stream down your face, and AAAAH.' What's that all about, then?

Matt McGinn

#18. My idea for a Buddhist video game: No guns. Self-immolate instead. Get reincarnated. Repeat until you find Nirvana. Takes forever to play.

Dan Spencer

#19. God spoke to Balaam through his ass. I believe God still speaks through asses today. So if God should choose to speak through you, you needn't think too highly of yourself.

Rich Mullins

#20. Joe Schenck, a top 20th Century-Fox executive, once said to me that he really believed I had a future, and that was because I was the only girl who could survive so many bad pictures.

Gene Tierney

#21. You and only you can decide what success means in your life.

Elizabeth Bourgeret

#22. Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude ... Don't complain; just work harder ... Never give up.

Randy Pausch

#23. Truth is truth, whether from the lips of Jesus or Balaam.

George MacDonald

#24. I believe that forgiveness is a processes. You might be able to release some offenses right away, but some offenses hurt deeper. You have to choose to let go and let God.

Anna M. Aquino

#25. If your temper is violent towards your brothers and sisters in the Lord, whose kingdom are you trying to build?

Anna M. Aquino

#26. In the Bible, God uses brothel owners, pagan kings, murderers and mercenaries as instruments of good; at one point God even speaks to a guy named Balaam through his donkey.

Shane Claiborne

#27. And Balaam answered and said, ... If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to do less or more." - Spiritual

Ellen G. White

#28. You've heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession.

Phil Gramm

#29. Cinema, radio, television, and magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen without hearing.

Robert Bresson