Quotes about People

Teaching the Bible involves far more than simply giving out information about the Bible. Bible teaching is ministering to people, liberating them from their inadequate concepts of God, expanding their notion of what it means to live faithfully before God, helping them cast aside old self-defeating habits and replace them with habits of holiness.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.

Some say society must change in order to change people. No, people must be changed in order to change society.

America's making a long-term commitment to help the people of Lebanon because we believe every person deserves to live in a free, open society that respects the rights of all.

The love of Christ comes from simple people who love simple people. Never be fooled by the spiritual leader who knows a lot but doesn't love a lot.

Jesus has made the life of his people as eternal as his own.

The development from a religion of fear to moral religion is a great step in peoples' lives.

The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.

That was the chief difference between literature and life. In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low.

As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.

Happiness is a hard master - particularly other people's happiness.

You'd be the first to complain if people didn't write,' Judd rapped out. 'Here's your egg. Boiled for three minutes exactly. I saw to it myself.' Taking his egg, 'On the contrary,' Fanning answered, 'I'd be the first to rejoice. If people write, it means they exist; and all I ask is to be able to pretend that the world doesn't exist.