Top 26 Quotes About Eric Liddell
#1. I remember that famous line from Olympic runner Eric Liddell. People asked him why he ran and he said, 'When I run, I feel His pleasure.' When I lay my hands on the keyboard, that is exactly how I feel, I feel God's pleasure. It is what he made me to do.
Dave Sterrett
#2. Death would hurt only for a moment, which was not so bad when one considered how much, and for how long, life hurt.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#3. Ghost towns filled with sad people who settled for what life offered them. The road unfurls before us. Everything is possible. I feel sick to my stomach.
Pete Wentz
#4. God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.
Eric Liddell
#5. In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.
Eric Liddell
#6. Sunday is God's day, and he was committed to honoring it. Just because he was in Paris to compete in the Olympics didn't justify changing his lifelong commitment.
Craig Groeschel
#7. No man who really is a man ever cared for the easy task. There is no enjoyment in the game that is easily won. It is that in which you have to strain every muscle and sinew to achieve victory that provides real joy.
Eric Liddell
#8. I would suggest maintaining a life and a career outside the Industry. This is a fickle business and a lousy one to make a steady living in, so it's important to have a good family, friends, job and education to fall back on.
Fred Savage
#9. If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
Mel Brooks
#10. The kingdom is where the King reigns. If He is reigning in my heart, then the Kingdom of Heaven has come to me.
Eric Liddell
#11. Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God's plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins. God's love is still working. He comes in and takes the calamity and uses it victoriously, working out His wonderful plan of love.
Eric Liddell
#12. Anyone who, neglecting that fixed hour of prayer, [will] say he can pray at all times but will probably end in praying at no time.
Eric Liddell
#13. You will know as much of God, and only as much of God, as you are willing to put into practice.
Eric Liddell
#14. Purity does not mean crushing the instincts but having the instincts as servants and not the master of the spirit.
Eric Liddell
#15. We are all missionaries. Wherever we go we either bring people nearer to Christ or we repel them from Christ.
Eric Liddell
#16. 3And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
Anonymous
#17. Christ for the world, for the world needs Christ!
Eric Liddell
#18. The secret of my success over the 400m is that I run the first 200m as fast as I can. Then, for the second 200m, with God's help I run faster.
Eric Liddell
#19. Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight. It is not willingness to know, but willingness to DO (obey) God's will that brings certainty.
Eric Liddell
#20. We need to have Bill Cosby month in Philadelphia.
Chaka Fattah
#21. If, in the quiet of your heart, you feel something should be done, stop and consider whether it is in line with the character and teaching of Jesus. If so, obey that impulse to do it, and in doing so you will find it was God guiding you.
Eric Liddell
#22. As Christians, I challenge you. Have a great aim - have a high standard - make Jesus your ideal ... make Him an ideal not merely to be admired but also to be followed.
Eric Liddell
#23. It has been a wonderful experience to compete in the Olympic Games and to bring home a gold medal. But since I have been a young lad, I have had my eyes on a different prize. You see, each one of us is in a greater race than any I have run in Paris, and this race ends when God gives out the medals.
Eric Liddell
#24. Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best.
Eric Liddell
#25. If you are not guided by God, you will be guided by something or someone else.
Eric Liddell
#26. And where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within.
Eric Liddell
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