Dan Schilling famous quotes

One of the most disruptive forces in the Church is arrogance. It is natural for people to bring their pride to Church, and try to prove their own greatness to others. This is an urge we need to constantly be fighting
-- Dan Schilling

#Fighting #Pride #Greatness

We need to stop comparing ourselves to others, and stop patting ourselves on the back for attaining artificial measurements of spirituality. We need to take care that we do not think we are something we are not, or else we may deceive ourselves, setting ourselves up for rebuke in the future when we see Christ face to face
-- Dan Schilling

#Thinking #Needs #Care

A mature Christian is a humble Christian
-- Dan Schilling

#Christian #Humble #Mature

We need to never consider ourselves as having 'arrived'; always trying to learn how we can change to be more like Christ
-- Dan Schilling

#Trying #Needs #Christ

Our time on earth is not well spent by counting rewards before God has given them to us, but rather, by looking for our faults and repenting of them
-- Dan Schilling

#Earth #Rewards #Faults

Is there a chance? A fragment of light at the end of the tunnel? A reason to fight? Is there a chance you may change your mind? Or are we ashes and wine?

There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.

At the same time the Muslims are commanded to exercise self-restraint as much as possible. Force is a dangerous weapon. It may have to be used for self-defense or self-preservation, but we must always remember that self-restraint is pleasing in the eyes of Allah. Even when we are fighting, it should be for a principle not out of passion.

I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.

I take pride in my music, I feel like it actually does something for people personally, in their personal lives, so it's real music and it helps people get through things like I was able to get through things.

I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.

She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.

Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition... and also read those whose darkness or malice or madness or greatness you can't understand because only in this way will you grow, outlive yourself, and become what you are.

The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness.

I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.