Michael Ramsey famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The duty of the church is to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable.
-- Michael Ramsey

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You don't characterize CEOs as dealmakers or in any one particular area. An important characteristic of a CEO is leader. That's probably the most important characteristic.
-- Michael Ramsey

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I often think the doctrine of fasting in Lent and having meatless days as old-fashioned...it might be better to give up television.
-- Michael Ramsey

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Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.
-- Michael Ramsey

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Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime.
-- Michael Ramsey

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Currently, we're finding that about 75 percent of potential jurors have anger or deep-seated hatred toward anyone associated with Enron.
-- Michael Ramsey

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Do you recall the laughter of the Philistines at the helpless Sampson? You can hear the echo of that laughter to-day, as the church, shorn of her strength by her own sin, is an object of ridicule to the world, who cry in derision, "Where is your boasted triumph and your Millennial glory?
abroad it is our habit to regard all other travelers in the light of personal and unpardonable grievances. They are intruders into our chosen realms of pleasure, they jar upon our sensibilities, they lessen our meager share of comforts, they are everywhere in our way, they are always an unnecessary feature in the landscape.
There is a percentage of people who want to be a little bit outside their comfort zone and I am one of them, someone who lives on the edge.
Do not resist events that move you out of your comfort zone, especially when your comfort zone was not all that comfortable.
During negotiations nothing is gained by attacking people's comfort zones.
George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have monarchs it would be hard to find a better one.
I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination. I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing.
To recognize that some of the things our culture believes are not true imposes on us the duty of finding out which are true and which are not.
I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.
I feel incompetent to perform duties...which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

Michael Ramsey famous quotes

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