Quotes About Matters

If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the essential reality we know, then what happens on earth matters even more than we think, for the Christian life becomes a continuation of the unfolding work of Jesus, who will one day return to set the world to rights.

Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.

I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way.

All I can hope for is to use my voice for things that I think matter and to stand up for what I believe in.

The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.

As long as something is happening it really does not matter if it is of God, of man or of the devil.

I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.

Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter, Some men never look at you; And that cleans up the matter.

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what is gnawing at your bones.

But if we listen with our own interests and agendas in mind, if we develop "private interpretations" and idiosyncratic views, we risk shattering that unity, provoking disputes over doubtful matters, and weakening our corporate gospel witness.

No, I can tell you one of the first things that happens to a home secretary when they arrive in the job is that they are given a briefing about the security matters that they will be dealing with and I deal with security matters on a daily basis.

For voters what matters is what government actually delivers for them.

What good is much discussion of involved and obscure matters when our ignorance of them will not be held against us on Judgment Day? Neglect of things which are profitable and necessary and undue concern with those which are irrelevant and harmful, are great folly.

Now in matters of action the reason directs all things in view of the end:

In order to remain undead, I must steal the life force of someone whose fate matters less to me than my own.' I've always supposed that Wall Street traders utter essentially the same sentence.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

It's nice to feel the fans are behind you. You shouldn't concern yourself with things like that - but it does matter.

The people who are known are riding the crest of some wave. Now, you can ride the crest of the wave and try to use it to get power, which is the standard thing, or you can ride the crest of the wave because you're helping people that way, which is another thing. But the point is, it's the wave that matters

but I never let it apply to me. Not to me. People matter, how they feel, how they connect, who they are alone and together. All that matters, no matter how quickly the moment passes. Maybe because it passes.

Time's never lost, just spent on other matters.

I haven't been with a man before. I know it. Adelia's smile was soft, almost wistful. Do you think I wouldn't know if that had changed for you? You think too much of yourself to give what you are to something unless it matters.No one's mattered before.

Time's never lost, just spent on other matters.