Quotes about Appropriate
Brewing was often viewed as an appropriate activity for widows, who found it hard to farm land.
- Terry Jones
In the context of Quaker worship, it is perfectly appropriate for any person in the congregation to speak a timely word from the Lord.
- Richard Foster
Baptism, worship attendance, and church involvement are all appropriate, obedient responses to a relationship with God. However, they do not create or replace the relationship.
- Henry Blackaby
Prayer means nothing else but the readiness to appropriate the Word, and what is more, to let it speak to me in my personal situation, in my particular tasks, decisions, sins, and temptations.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn't think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.
- Jimmy Carter
Faced with the sacredness of life and of the human person, and before the marvels of the universe, wonder is the only appropriate attitude.
- Pope John Paul II
Culturally appropriate evangelism answers the actual questions being asked by a given culture rather than those questions the church believes the culture should ask.
- Ed Stetzer
Lily had no real intimacy with nature but she had a passion for the appropriate and could be keenly sensitive to a scene which was the fitting background of her own sensations.
- Edith Wharton
When you're shooting concert scenes in films, we try to bring in, where appropriate, as much of a sense of live performance as possible.
- Todd Haynes
A good orator can whip a crowd, even a Christian crowd, into a frenzy. This is not the kind of emotion that God desires. When emotion is a response to truth or to a clear comprehension of the nature of God and His goodness to us, then emotion is valuable and appropriate.
- William Wilberforce
A word in season is most precious.
- Aesop