Voice Quotes - Page 31

• We withdraw not to disappear, but to find another ground from which to see; a solid ground from which to step, and from which to speak again, in a different way, a clear, rested, embodied voice we begin to remember again as our own.

  David Whyte

  Different, Way, Steps

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• The more youth begin to recognize that they have a voice, the more change is possible.

  Usher

  Youth

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• For Jesus, Scripture is powerful, decisive, and authoritative because it is nothing less than the voice of God.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Jesus, Powerful, Scripture

  Kevin DeYoung (2014). “Taking God at His Word”, p.76, SPCK

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• A Christian is one who points at Christ and says, 'I can't prove a thing, but there's something about his eyes and his voice. There's something about the way he carries his head, his hands, the way he carries his cross-the way he carries me.'

  Frederick Buechner

  Christian, Eye, Hands

  Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

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• To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.

  Robert Bly

  Nature, Crazy, Poetry

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• The resistance is the voice in your head telling you to use bullets in your PowerPoint slides...It’s the voice that tells you to leave controversial ideas out of the paper you’re writing, because the teacher won’t like them. The resistance pushes relentlessly for you to fit in.

  Seth Godin

  Teacher, Writing, Ideas

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• If you want to find your voice, you need to hear the voice of God.

  Mark Batterson

  Needs, Want, Ifs

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• Never think that someone else knows what's best for you. Trust your way and don't ask for so much advice. Learn how to be quiet and still enough to hear your own voice. It's up to you: Your voice will either be silenced or will get to roar.

  Maria Shriver

  Thinking, Advice, Up To You

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• Our voice resonates with life. Because this is so, it can touch the lives of others. The caring and compassion imbued in your voice finds passage to the listener's soul, striking his or her heart and causing it to sing out; the human voice summons something profound from deep within, and can even compel a person into action.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Heart, Caring, Compassion

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• Really, what I'm always drawn to is the voice - PJ Harvey , Björk . If the voice interests me, then I'm interested to listen to what's happening.

  Dave Gahan

  Pjs, Interest, Pj Harvey

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• The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Quiet Voice, Way

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• The soul and eternity of one man depends upon the voice of another

  Horatius Bonar

  Men, Soul, Eternity

  Thomas Boston, Horatius Bonar (2006). “Art of Manfishing & Words to Winners of Souls”, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• A person God himself deems as wise is one who not only hears His voice, but immediately begins to act upon His instruction.

  Erwin McManus

  Wise, Instruction, Persons

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2006). “Stand Against the Wind: Fuel for the Revolution of Your Soul”, p.19, Thomas Nelson

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• It would be very difficult to draw a line between holy wonder and real worship; for when the soul is overwhelmed with the majesty of God's glory, though it may not express itself in song, or even utter its voice with bowed head and humble prayer, yet it silently adores.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Song, Prayer, Real

  Charles Spurgeon (2012). “Daily Help Devotional”, p.52, Whitaker House

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• If you are hungry to hear the voice of God, you will hear. To hear, you have to cut out all other things.

  Mother Teresa

  Cutting, Hungry, Ifs

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.16, Image

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• I choose to identify with the underprivileged, I choose to give my life for the hungry, I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity . . . this is the way I'm going. If it means suffering, I'm going that way. If it means dying for them, I'm going that way, because I heard a voice saying DO SOMETHING FOR OTHERS.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Mean, Opportunity, Giving

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• The higher we go, the better we shall hear the voice of Christ

  Pier Giorgio Frassati

  Christ, Higher

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• Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous expression with good humored inflexibility whether the whole cry of voices is on the other side.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Expression, Lessons

  "Self-Reliance". Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841.

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• There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices.

  Louis L'Amour

  Men, Good Man, Wish

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• ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Ears, Singers, Ass

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2358, Delphi Classics

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• When Abba Anthony thought about the depths of the judgments of God, he asked, 'Lord, how is it that some die when they are young, while others drag on to extreme old age? Why are there those who are poor and those who are rich? Why do wicked men prosper and why are the just in need?' He heard a voice answering him, 'Antony, keep your attention on yourself; these things are according to the judgment of God, and it is not to your advantage to know anything about them.'

  Anthony the Great

  Christian, Men, Wicked

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• Ascend, my brothers, ascend eagerly. Let your hearts' resolve be to climb. Listen to the voice of the one who says: 'Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of our God' (Isa. 2:3), Who makes our feet to be like the feet of the deer, 'Who sets us on the high places, that we may be triumphant on His road' (Hab. 3:19).

  John Climacus

  Christian, Brother, Heart

  Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.291, Paulist Press

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• I seem indeed to hear that voice, from Him Who gathers together those who are broken, and welcomes the oppressed: I have given you up, and I will help you. In a little wrath I struck you, but with everlasting mercy I will glorify you (cf. Isa. 54:8). The measure of His kindness exceeds the measure of His discipline.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Kindness, Wrath

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• If your body is not in shape to sing [from the diaphragm] you will push and push but keep falling back on your throat to make the sound. This will ruin your voice.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Fall, Singing, Sound

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• I never pretended to have a great voice. It works and I can carry a tune. If you have a good song, that's about all that's required.

  Willie Nelson

  Song, Singing, Tunes

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