We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.
Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.
Some of us live a Christian life as if we're always under the stern, watchful eye of our Father and he is very impossible to please. . . No, God delights even in our heartfelt attempts at obedience.
I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.
Never fear dying, beloved. Dying is the last, but the least matter that a Christian has to be anxious about. Fear living. . . that is a hard battle to fight, a stern discipline to endure, a rough voyage to undergo.
Fine. Everybody wears seatbelts. No radio. No distractions. ” Ben shot Hi a stern look. “No running commentary. ” “Your loss,” Hi said. “To the pimp ride!
I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me.
I had a career before the Stern show, on Mad TV. I was on the first two seasons of that and I got kicked off it because of possession of cocaine.
I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, stern, Midwestern, warm-slash-passive aggressive, wonderful - every adjective I can think of, very cold.
Ah, there’s the governess voice. All stern and disapproving. It makes me feel like a naughty schoolboy.
I was too much of a victim of the model I created. I tried Change to Win and helping Obama, and then I just ran out of Andy Stern ideas.
A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character.
I'm Howard Stern with a vocabulary. I'm the man he wishes he could be.
Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.
There is rest in this world nowhere except in Christ, the manifested love of God. Trust in excellence, and the better you become, the keener is the feeling of deficiency. Wrap up all in doubt, and there is a stern voice that will thunder at last out of the wilderness upon your dream.
Dreams are nervy things—all it takes is for one stern word to be spoken in their direction and they shrivel up and die.
Ah, many a one has started forth with hope and purpose high; Has fought throughout a weary life, and passed all pleasure by; Has burst all flowery chains by which men aye have been enthralled; Has been stone-deaf to voices sweet, that softly, sadly called; Has scorned the flashing goblet with the bubbles on its brim; Has turned his back on jewelled hands that madly beckoned him; Has, in a word, condemned himself to follow out his plan By stern and lonely labor--and has died, a conquered man!
