Paul Lizardo > Paul's Quotes

“Why should anyone hear the Gospel twice, before everyone has heard it once?”
― Oswald J. Smith

“I want Thy plan, O God, for my life. May I be happy and contented whether in the homeland or on the foreign field; whether married or alone, in happiness or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or adversity -- I want Thy plan, O God, for my life. I want it; oh, I want it.”
― Oswald Smith

“We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first.”
― Oswald J. Smith

“No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once.”
― Oswald J. Smith

“You must go or send a substitute.”
― Oswald J. Smith

“The church that does not evangelize will fossilize.”
― Oswald J. Smith

“If God wills the evangelization of the world, and you refuse to support missions, then you are opposed
to the will of God.”
― Oswald J. Smith

“The biggest problem with communication is the assumption that it has taken place.”
― Pat MacMillan, The Performance Factor: Unlocking the Secrets of Teamwork

“It's virtually impossible to build a team-based organization without the necessary levels of trust, acceptance, and respect among co-workers that will allow them to be open to interdependent relationships.”
― Pat MacMillan, The Performance Factor: Unlocking the Secrets of Teamwork

“Solid team relationships (trust, respect, acceptance, courtesy, and mutual accountability) are the glue that holds the team together.”
― Pat MacMillan, The Performance Factor: Unlocking the Secrets of Teamwork

“No team can communicate successfully without highly developed listening skills among team members. Most experts would agree that listening is the most overlooked and underused component of communication. Although listening comprises about 45 percent of the communication process, we have little or no formal training in this important skill.”
― Pat MacMillan, The Performance Factor: Unlocking the Secrets of Teamwork

“Further, we often make the mistake of treating listening as merely waiting for our turn to talk. While other team members are making their points, we're preparing our rebuttal. It takes practice and discipline to withhold the urge to jump in with our opinion and really concentrate on what the other person is saying.”
― Pat MacMillan, The Performance Factor: Unlocking the Secrets of Teamwork

“High performance teams have six characteristics that allow them to consistently achieve exceptional levels of results: Common Purpose Crystal Clear Roles Accepted Leadership Effective Processes Solid Relationships Excellent Communication”
― Pat MacMillan, The Performance Factor: Unlocking the Secrets of Teamwork

“The question the doubter does not ask is whether faith was really useless or simply not used. What would you think of a boy who gave up learning to ride a bicycle, complaining that he hurt himself because his bicycle stopped moving so he had no choice but to fall off? If he wanted to sit comfortably while remaining stationary, he should not have chosen a bicycle but a chair. Similarly faith must be put to use, or it will become useless.”
― Os Guinness, God in the Dark: The Assurance of Faith Beyond a Shadow of Doubt

“Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.”
― Os Guiness

“Thus, for followers of Christ, calling neutralizes the fundamental position of choice in modern life. “I have chosen you,” Jesus said, “you have not chosen me.” We are not our own; we have been bought with a price. We have no rights, only responsibilities. Following Christ is not our initiative, merely our response, in obedience. Nothing works better to debunk the pretensions of choice than a conviction of calling. Once we have been called, we literally “have no choice.”
― Os Guinness

“To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.”
― Karl Barth

“No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!”
― T D Jakes

“If I get married, I want to be very married.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”
― Socrates

“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”
― Agatha Christie

“To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.”
― Timothy Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

“Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very difficult choices. It is a commitment that demands that you deal with your lust, your greed, your pride, your power, your desire to control, your temper, your patience, and every area of temptation that the Bible clearly talks about. It demands the quality of commitment that Jesus demonstrates in His relationship to us.”
― Ravi Zacharias, I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah

“In any relationship, there will be frightening spells in which your feelings of love dry up. And when that happens you must remember that the essence of marriage is that it is a covenant, a commitment, a promise of future love. So what do you do? You do the acts of love, despite your lack of feeling. You may not feel tender, sympathetic, and eager to please, but in your actions you must BE tender, understanding, forgiving and helpful. And, if you do that, as time goes on you will not only get through the dry spells, but they will become less frequent and deep, and you will become more constant in your feelings. This is what can happen if you decide to love.”
― Timothy Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

“Love is an act of endless forgiveness; a tender look which becomes a habit.”
― Peter Ustinov

“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.”
― W. H. Auden

“Los que somos tan justos según nuestra propia opinión, y sin embargo, tan ciegos, necesitamos tener a lo menos una vez en la vida un encuentro con la autoridad de Dios para que seamos quebrantados hasta la sumisión y comencemos así a aprender la obediencia a su autoridad. Antes de que un hombre pueda someterse a la autoridad delegada de Dios tiene que conocer primero la autoridad inherente de Dios.”
― Watchman Nee, Autoridad espiritual

“Porque la autoridad de Dios representa a Dios mismo, mientras que su poder representa sus hechos.”
― Watchman Nee, Autoridad espiritual

“Al servir a Dios no debemos desobedecer a las autoridades, porque el hacerlo es un principio de Satanás.”
― Watchman Nee, Autoridad espiritual