Stephen Arterburn Quotes

#1. we all tend to criticize in others what we are most insecure about in ourselves.

Stephen Arterburn

#2. Refusing to acknowledge and embrace your sinful past is choosing your love for yourself over your love of God.

Stephen Arterburn

#3. The only way to love and give is to do both out of the fullness of God.

Stephen Arterburn

#4. Enjoy simple things with total intensity. Just a cup of tea can be a deep meditation.

Rajneesh

#5. Knowing God yields wonderful results, under the guidance and control of the Holy Spirit.

Stephen Arterburn

#6. The truth exists in the minds of those who remember.

Jill Thrussell

#7. Ever since 1980, sci-fi has generally been more Bladerunner than Star Wars. People talk about Star Wars being the most influential movie of all time and creating the blockbuster along with Jaws and that sort of thing, but really there's not been a space opera that anyone can go and see.

Mark Millar

#8. I knew that I was learning one of the most important lessons of my life: that instead of waiting for the perfect opportunity, I should work toward a realization that every opportunity is perfect.

Suzan-Lori Parks

#9. When a man practices biblical openness with other men, he moves from secrecy to candor, from isolation to connection, and from pretense to authenticity.

Stephen Arterburn

#10. But we must remember that, in a way, claiming all or too much responsibility is just another form of ego gratification.

Stephen Arterburn

#11. 17Remember, it is sin to know what you ought to do and then not do it.

Stephen Arterburn

#12. The turnings of life seldon show a sign-post; or rather, though the sign is always there, it is usually placed some distance back, like the notices that give warning of a bad hill or a level railway-crossing.

Edith Wharton

#13. Regret-free living isn't found by continuing to do flawed things, then simply "working through" the regret they cause and moving on.

Stephen Arterburn

#14. Before you can stand up straight before another person, you have to fall on your knees before God.

Stephen Arterburn

#15. That was the plan?
part of it, you don't wan tot know the rest. i believe the word 'these dog colllars would make excellent restraints' were involved.
it was a brilliant idea. and we only got really cute well-made collars. this is my favorite. we had the tag engraved to say BUBBA.

Michele Jaffe

#16. An enemy can cause you plenty of pain, but no one can hurt you like a friend who has become your enemy.

Stephen Arterburn

#17. All through the 1960s, success was determined by birth: which house or which last name you were born into. But over the next couple of decades, in the 1970s and 1980s, success was determined by education. Now, thankfully, talent has been given its own berth,

Raghu Ram

#18. What a magnificient look a clear sky has! And what a magnificient look a clear mind has!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#19. The fact that we live in a world that moves crisis by crisis does not make a growing interest in outdoor activities frivolous, or ample provision for them unworthy of the nation's concern.

John F. Kennedy

#20. But as soon as the thought enters my mind, another one swims in and eats the first one like a shark. Fuck that, it burps.

Libba Bray

#21. Laughter is the best medicine for a long and happy life. He who laughs lasts!

Wilferd Peterson

#22. When we have an out-of-control appetite for food, it signals that we have put that appetite above its rightful place as a necessary and God-given function.

Stephen Arterburn

#23. I saw many humans on whom there were no clothes. I saw many clothes in which there were no humans.

Rumi

#24. And admitting that you can't fix yourself - that only God can - is the first step to staying fixed.

Stephen Arterburn

#25. The only true development in American recreational resources is the development of the perceptive faculty in Americans. All of the other acts we grace by that name are, at best, attempts to retard or mask the process of dilution.

Aldo Leopold