Selwyn Hughes Quotes

#1. We must learn to do more with temptation than just bear it - we must learn to use it. The secret of using temptation, and turning it to our advantage, is one of life's greatest secrets. Once we have learned it we are unbeatable and unbreakable.

Selwyn Hughes

#2. There you are, diligently swimming a straight line, minding the form of your strokes, when you look up and see, always a shock, the currents you can't even feel have pulled you off course.

Julia Glass

#3. Love is an unconditional commitment to an imperfect person.

Selwyn Hughes

#4. Enlightened teachers are not logical. They don't function from levels that are understandable to the human mind. They're not religious. Religions form around them, usually after they've died.

Frederick Lenz

#5. A legalist is not someone who places divine law above all else. A legalist is someone who places human law above all else.

Rob Rienow

#6. This culture seems to be so obsessed with sexuality, the good and the bad of it. Every advertisement, every preacher, everybody's concerned, one way or the other about sexuality.

Frederick Lenz

#7. Life works better when we know how to glance at things but gaze at God.

Selwyn Hughes

#8. I have watched hundreds of Christians in my time become financially blessed then develop an acquisitive streak that in turn makes their souls as metallic as the coins they seek.

Selwyn Hughes

#9. My dad said that the impossible is only impossible if you don't even try. So I want to try.

Ashley Poston

#10. Remember, it is only exposed problems that can be resolved.

Selwyn Hughes

#11. The greek word for temptation means to test, to try, to prove.

Selwyn Hughes

#12. venting anger does not solve the problem that anger signals.

Harriet Lerner

#13. Those who doubt most, and yet strive to overcome their doubts, turn out to be some of Christ's strongest disciples.

Selwyn Hughes

#14. From birth,....... I've been on a mission now it's time to enjoy the transitions

Renee' A. Lee

#15. The Bible opens and closes with a wedding.

Selwyn Hughes

#16. The Dhamma has to be found by looking into your own heart and seeing that which is true and that which is not, that which is balanced and that which is not balanced.

Ajahn Chah

#17. You don't get it, Tess. I can't have you."
"But you do have me," I whispered.

J. Lynn

#18. Honey, if brains were dynamite, he wouldn't have enough to blow his nose.

Kris Calvert

#19. I have the world heavyweight title not because it was 'given' to me, not because of my race or religion, but because I won it in the ring through my own boxing ability.

Muhammad Ali

#20. Marriage is an exclusive union between one man and one woman, publicly acknowledged, permanently sealed, and physically consummated.

Selwyn Hughes

#21. Remember this-you can't serve God and Money, but you can serve God with money.

Selwyn Hughes