Quotes about Opinion

The call of God is the expression of God's nature, not ours. God providentially weaves the threads of His call through our lives, and only we can distinguish them. It is the threading of God's voice directly to us over a certain concern, and it is useless to seek another person's opinion of it. Our dealings over the call of God should be kept exclusively between ourselves and Him.

So they said, “We will call the girl and ask her opinion.”

The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, for they are convinced that John was a prophet.”

Yet no one would speak publicly about Him for fear of the Jews.

Do not allow what you consider good, then, to be spoken of as evil.

And this is my opinion about what is helpful for you in this matter: Last year you were the first not only to give, but even to have such a desire.

Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.

In the long run, what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own Personal Legends.

Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.

To lessen your fear and regard to the opinion of the world, think how soon the world will disregard you, and have no more thought or concern about you, than about the poorest animal that died in a ditch...Is it therefore worth your while to lose the smallest degree of virtue, for the sake of pleasing so bad a master, and so false a friend, as the world is?

Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.