quotes about Pentecostal

last updated: November 28, 2023

My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher.
-- Billy Ray Cyrus

Source : "Country Music Sensation Billy Ray Cyrus". Interview with Kelli Gillespie, www.risenmagazine.com. 2013.

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The Pentecostal power, when you sum it all up, is just more of God's love. If it does not bring more love, it is simply a counterfeit.
-- William J. Seymour

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“Father of rosy day, No more thy clouds of incense rise; But waking flow'rs, At morning hours, Give out their sweets to meet thee in the skies.”
“The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.”
“To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.”
“When they knock you down, you not only have to get up, but you have to make it clear that you won't be knocked down a second time.”
“I think we've been an agent for change, everywhere, and I think change frightens people. They're going nicely in what seems like a settled industry, and someone comes in and says "I can do this better. It doesn't matter how nice that other one is." That's one of the distinguishing points of our acquisitions.”
“If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!”

Source : Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.28, Octagon Press Ltd
“The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.”
“Death is the only mystery we all solve.”

Source : 1991 A Devious Dictionary.
“I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.”
“I take everything with a grain of salt.”