Quotes about Alive

excuses are nothing more than a way to deceive ourselves and justify doing nothing. You will come alive like never before if you will aggressively reach out to others. Let us not forget the words of Jesus: "I give you a new commandment: that you should love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too should love one another" (John 13:34). Without a doubt, this is our purpose and the will of God for our lives.

For it is not meters, but a metermaking argument that makes a poem—a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.

The true function of the Law is to accuse and to kill; but the function of the gospel is to make alive. 1483-1546 GFRMAN PRIFST WHO FOUNDED THE LUTHERAN CHURCH

There is no healing a man till the law has wounded him, no making him alive till the law has slain him.

When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.

Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group.

Be not lax in celebrating. Be not lazy in the festive service of God. Be ablaze with enthusiasm. Let us be an alive, burning offering before the altar of God.

The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive

Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.

The surest sign that God is alive in you is joy.

To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people.

I believe what Irenaeus said - the glory of God is a human being fully alive.