Charlie Studd has written me a delightful letter. . . He thinks the Chinese language was invented by the devil to prevent the Chinese from ever hearing the Gospel properly.
It does feel like the middle ground has fallen out. I'm only saying that from personal experience, saying, "I'd like to make that movie" and hearing, "Oh, they're not making those types of movies anymore. "
A tiny group of believers who have the gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story.
Love is hearing my son laugh.
Hope is hearing the music of the future. Faith is to dance to it.
Formalism is music that people don't understand at first hearing.
It is almost intrinsically impossible for ideas about how we are fooling ourselves to gain an adequate hearing. We are good enough at it to keep them nicely at bay.
People are still hearing your music. They might not be buying it, but they might be having it and you don't know it. Your music is still out there.
In every enterprise. . . the mind is always reasoning, and, even when we seem to act without a motive, an instinctive logic still directs the mind. Only we are not aware of it, because we begin by reasoning before we know or say that we are reasoning, just as we begin by speaking before we observe that we are speaking, and just as we begin by seeing and hearing before we know what we see or what we hear.
Women have so much power that even hearing the word power frightens them.
Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing the opinions of friends.
[On hearing that Clare Boothe Luce was invariably kind to her inferiors:] And where does she find them?
When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.
Hillary Clinton really transformed herself into a national security expert. She decided to join the Senate Armed Services Committee, and she became a real military wonk. She was famous for going to every subcommittee hearing and methodically questioning every lieutenant colonel from the Pentagon about defense procurement or selective service benefits. So that's where she really began to carve out and hone this reputation as a hawk that I think has followed her through the secretary of state years and then into the presidential campaign.
Our ability to fulfill any assignment is greatly enhanced when we understand the importance of the temple and pay close attention to all that is said and done there. The temple is for redeeming not only the dead but the living as well. All are alive in God, and He is no respecter of persons. Blessings always come from hearing and obeying His word, and His word is never more clear than in the temple.
HERE It’s- Can I say? It’s like the song of a family where everything’s always all right, it’s a song of belonging that makes you belong just by hearing it, it’s a song that’ll always take care of you and never leave you. If you have a heart, it breaks, if you have a heart that’s broken, it fixes.
And in English you have this wonderful difference between listening and hearing, and that you can hear without listening, and you can listen and not hear.
Recently we've been hearing a lot about women "having it all. " Myself, I think that is not really an accurate description of female lives today. It seems to me that what we have been up to is DOING it all.
Some French politicians have said that the European Union should drop sanctions against Russia so everybody can join together in this fight against the Islamic State. But we're hearing from French officials that [Francois] Hollande hasn't changed his stance. He's - he's still saying that sanctions shouldn't be lifted until the Minsk agreement has been implemented.
Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.