Top 100 Quotes About Macarthur
#3. While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a thought, the new situation did urgently demand a drastic revision of strategic planning if our political aim was to defeat this new enemy as we had defeated the old.
Douglas MacArthur
#4. I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
Douglas MacArthur
#5. Do you know what the Spirit-filled life is? It is living every moment as though you are standing in the presence of Jesus Christ!
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#6. But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.
James MacArthur
#7. 18The LORD is near to all who call upon Him, To all who call upon Him in truth.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#8. If we could build an economy that would use things rather than use them up, we could build a future.
Ellen MacArthur
#10. Fortunately, I've also been an electrician, and that's a happy memory for me.
James MacArthur
#11. In thought and practice we are far from holy, but in the new nature we are perfectly holy: "In Him [we] have been made complete" (Col. 2:10).
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#12. I will defend Korea as I would my own country-just as I would California.
Douglas MacArthur
#14. Our greatest limitation isn't the leader of the lives; it is the spirit within us.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#15. We allow our daily concerns to turn into worry and therefore sin when our thoughts become focused on changing the future instead of doing our best to handle our present circumstances.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#16. The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.
Douglas MacArthur
#17. Christ is the foundation of all our hopes for time and for eternity. Oh, build on this divine foundation! All other foundations are sinking sand.
Robert Stuart MacArthur
#18. Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
Douglas MacArthur
#19. If a dying Savior could bring us to God's grace, surely a living Savior can keep us in His grace.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#20. Clung tightly to the Lord, faithfully following Him and obeying His commands (v. 6).
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#21. 4Behold, as for the aproud one, His soul is not right within him; But the brighteous will live by his 1faith.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#22. 18O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see our desolations, and the city that is called by your name. For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#23. Since God has a will for us, He must want us to know it. If so, then we could expect Him to communicate it to us in the most obvious way.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#24. True Christianity is not defined on the basis of external moralism, religious traditionalism, or partisan politics, but on the basis of a personal love for Jesus Christ and a desire to follow Him no matter what the cost (John 14:15).
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#25. Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam when Gen. William Westmoreland, the top commander in Vietnam, requested 240,000 more troops in 1968 for the prolonged war that also could not be won.
Helen Thomas
#26. Praise the LORD! For it is good to sing praises to our God; For it is pleasant, and praise is beautiful.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#27. The one most valuable lesson humanity ought to have learned from philosophy is that it is impossible to make sense of truth without acknowledging God as the necessary starting point.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#28. We confess that our best service is altogether unprofitable, and when we have rendered our best obedience, we are still merely unworthy slaves who have done no more than that which we ought to do.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#30. Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
Douglas MacArthur
#31. As long as I continue to breathe, as long as there's injustice in this world, I will use the voice that God has given me to speak against it.
James MacArthur
#32. My main regret in life is that there is no MacArthur Fellowship awarded in the field of Panda Satire.
Anne Belov
#33. Jesus gave us, His children, three reasons for not worrying about this life: It is unnecessary because of our Father, it is uncharacteristic because of our faith, and it is unwise because of our future.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#34. It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective in conversations a deux. But those who dismiss him as shallow because his rhetoric was fustian err.
William Manchester
#35. With the MacArthur grant, I realized that people have high expectations of me, that they were placing me in this group of achievers. I compared what Id actually achieved in my life with what I would like to achieve and what other people have achieved, and I found that comparison depressing.
Jared Diamond
#36. God help us! We have turned the holy fire of God into a circus sideshow - and naive Christians are buying this without realizing that such shenanigans are actually blasphemous.21
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#37. One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
Douglas MacArthur
#38. The Lord accomplishes great things through weak people ... What is required of His people is an obedient spirit, not a roster of tremendous gifts and abilities.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#41. 11The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger, And his glory is to overlook a transgression.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#42. I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.
Douglas MacArthur
#43. Prayer is the spontaneous response of the believing heart to God. Those truly transformed by Jesus Christ find themselves lost in wonder and joy of communion with Him. Prayer is as natural for the Christian as breathing
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#44. I am of Virginia and all my professional life I have studied of Lee and Jackson
Douglas MacArthur
#46. I would never want to be president because the power to bring righteousness to this country does not now and will never reside in public office.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#47. Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.a
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#48. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning, published by the MIT Press, present findings from current research on how young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life.
Henry Jenkins
#49. While nothing in the Bible is contradictory, many of the Bible's most provocative and profound truths appear to us paradoxical.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#50. Roosevelt is dead: a man who would never tell the truth when a lie would serve him just as well.
Douglas MacArthur
#52. My idea of going to hell is going somewhere where there are no books.
James MacArthur
#55. When Christ said to "pray, then, in this way," He didn't mean to pray with His exact words.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#56. The symbolism in Jesus' parables is never thickly layered, and rarely even multidimensional.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#57. A true Christian does not see God's promise of forgiveness as a license to sin, a way to abuse His love and presume on His grace. Rather, he sees God's gracious forgiveness as the means to spiritual growth and sanctification. He continually thanks God for His great love and willingness to forgive.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#58. A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Douglas MacArthur
#59. false promises of an easy life or indulgence of sins. But in good times, the cost does not seem so high, and people take the name of Christ without undergoing the radical transformation of life that true conversion implies.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#60. Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
Douglas MacArthur
#63. In many situations that seemed desperate, the artillery has been a most vital factor.
Douglas MacArthur
#64. I had accumulated some capital and was at an age at which I was interested in generating income. But even though I was risk averse, I was interested in growth stocks.
James MacArthur
#65. When you choose to love someone who is no longer attractive to you, he or she will become attractive.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#66. They all went down in droves because just scenes of palm trees and beaches can get pretty boring.
James MacArthur
#67. If Jesus expresses loving concern for the smallest of our troubles, certainly in His role as the perfect sufferer He cares for our greatest traumas.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#68. Beware not the enemy from 'without' but the enemy from 'within'.
Douglas MacArthur
#69. God is the decider and the determiner of every man's destiny, the controller of every detail in every individual's life, which is another way of saying, "He is God."1 - John MacArthur
Steven J. Lawson
#70. I have every confidence in the ultimate success of our joint cause; but success in modern war requires something more than courage and a willingness to die: it requires careful preparation.
Douglas MacArthur
#71. There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
Douglas MacArthur
#72. I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.
Douglas MacArthur
#73. Blank cartridges should never be used against a mob, nor should a volley be fired over the heads of the mob even if there is little danger of hurting persons in the rear. Such things will be regarded as an admission of weakness, or an attempt to bluff, and may do more harm than good.
Douglas MacArthur
#74. There is a massive economic opportunity out there to be taken without waiting for government legislation.
Ellen MacArthur
#75. It is the highest activity of the human soul, and therefore it is at the same time the ultimate test of a man's true spiritual condition. There is nothing that tells the truth about us as Christian people so much as our prayer life. ...
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#76. The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.
Douglas MacArthur
#78. The history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.
Douglas MacArthur
#79. Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
Douglas MacArthur
#80. Moral freedom now reigns. Materialism and the breakdown of the family are epidemic. Abortions, sexual evils, drugs, and crime are rampant.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#81. How His electing grace and predestined purpose can stand beside His love for the world and desire that the gospel be preached to all people, still holding them responsible for their own rejection and condemnation, is a divine mystery.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#82. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
Douglas MacArthur
#84. When you sail on a boat you take with you the minimum of resources. You don't waste anything. You don't leave the light on; you don't leave a computer screen on ... on land we take what we want
Ellen MacArthur
#85. Prayer is not an attempt to get God to agree with you or provide for your selfish desires, but that it is both an affirmation of His sovereignty, righteousness, and majesty and an exercise to conform your desires and purposes to His will and Glory
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#87. Often it is those who preach "tolerance," "nonjudgmentalism," and "intellectualism" who are most intolerant.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#88. If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
Douglas MacArthur
#89. And did not believe in His wondrous works. 33Therefore their days He consumed in futility,
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#91. It was an hour of sanity with the good guys winning, a situation where the world was right side up.
James MacArthur
#92. That democracy works and will always work, because the people are allowed to think, to talk, and keep their minds free, open, and supple.
Douglas MacArthur
#93. When I circumnavigated the globe the outcome didn't really matter, it was about a goal I'd set myself, but sustainability is part of all our lives
Ellen MacArthur
#94. He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] never went to church, but he read the Bible every day and regarded himself as one of the world's two great defenders of Christendom. (The other was the pope.)
William Manchester
#95. The Pacific no longer represents menacing avenues of approach for a prospective invader. It assumes, instead, the friendly aspect of a peaceful lake. Our line of defense is a natural one and can be maintained with a minimum of military effort and expense.
Douglas MacArthur
#96. the ultimate purpose of our salvation is to glorify God and to bring us into intimate, rich fellowship with Him,
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#97. We must offer the world leadership designed to advance the goal of universal progress and enduring peace.
Douglas MacArthur
#98. You don't win wars by dying for your country you win wars by making the other son of a bitch die for his
Douglas MacArthur
#99. The truth is in Jesus and it leads to the fullness of truth about God, man, creation, history, sin, righteousness, grace, faith, salvation, life, death, purpose, meaning, relationships, heaven, hell, judgement, eternity, and everything else of ultimate consequence.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#100. Few American commentators evaluated MacArthur's strategic sense at various stages in his generalship in Korea; it was instead the perception of whether he was winning or losing that mattered most to the public.
Victor Davis Hanson
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