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A church can wither as surely under the ministry of soulless Bible exposition as it can where no Bible is given. To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people. Then, and not till then, is it the prophetic word and the man himself a prophet.

Acknowledgement: Understanding and compassion for others and their suffering is the next step. Put yourself in the shoes of people who don't have the luxury of being wasteful.

A close, daily intimacy between two people has to be paid for: it requires a great deal of experience of life, logic, and warmth of heart on both sides to enjoy each other’s good qualities without being irritated by each other’s shortcomings and blaming each other for them.

A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people

a church is an interesting place once you get the parson and the people out of it. Real music can get in then, and a real God! Nothing flibertigibbet about religion then.

A church should be a camp of soldiers, not an hospital of invalids. But there is exceedingly much difference between what ought be and what is, and consequently many of God's people are in so sad a state that the very fittest prayer for them is for revival.

A city's greatness is manifest in a people confident in their ability to take risks, to encounter

"A closed mouth doesn't get fed." Oftentimes, we feel not worthy or we don't want to bother people. We forget to ask for help or what we need or would like. My grandmother used to say that quote to us as kids. It's kind of always stuck with me.

A community of people, that's the really what art school is.

A commuter tie-up consists of you — and people who for some reason won't use public transit.

A company should limit its growth based on its ability to attract enough of the right people.

A coach will impact more people in one year than the average person will in an entire lifetime.

A commune is where people join together to share their lack of wealth.

A community, a family, is a group of people who share common stories. The health of any community depends directly on the health of the stories the community embraces.

A company is people … employees want to know… am I being listened to or am I a cog in the wheel? People really need to feel wanted.

A company's success no longer depends primarily on its ability to raise investment capital. Success depends on the ability of its people to learn together and produce new ideas.

A compilation of what outstanding people said or wrote at the age of 20 would make a collection of asinine pronouncements.

A congressman actually apologized to BP's CEO for the way the company has been treated. How stupid are you when the CEO of BP is in the room and people think you're the moron?

A collection is like a dinner party. It is made up of the people you invite, but also the people you don't.

A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life - and I don't mean money.

A company is simply a group of people. And as a leader of people, you have to be a great listener, you have to be a great motivator, you have to be very good at praising and looking for the best in people. People are no different from flowers. If you water flowers, they flourish. If you praise people, they flourish. That's a critical attribute of a leader.

A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to.

A considerable proportion of the developed world's prosperity rests on paying the lowest possible prices for the poor countries' primary products and on exporting high-cost capital and finished goods to those countries. Continuation of this kind of prosperity requires continuation of the relative gap between developed and underdeveloped countries - it means keeping poor people poor. Increasingly, the impoverished masses are understanding that the prosperity of the developed countries and of the privileged minorities in their own countries is founded on their poverty.

A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.

A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; after half a century of grappling with Mill's essay On Liberty, or Hobbes's Leviathan, I have sometimes thought two dozen might be a little on the high side.

A college president is like the lawn mower at a cemetary: he has a lot of people under him, but they don't pay much attention to him

A comic, all they have to do is, if you do something funny in a comedy club and you put it up on you tube, it might get a million hits! All it needs to do is resonate with one person who sends it to their friends, who sends it to other people, and before you know it, it has spread virally and BOOM! All of a sudden that person has a name.

A common quality I see of people who are successful is that they are voracious readers.

A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You.. the people must give it this soul.

A company's employees are its greatest asset and your people are your product

A company shouldn't take value from people's private messages.

A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.

[A conductor's] happiness does not come from only his own story and his joy of the music. The joy is about enabling other people's stories to be heard at the same time.

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.

A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.

A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments.

A community is a butcher and a doctor, a minister, a town troublemaker. A "community" is not a bunch of people united by some grievance. That's just self-righteousness - incredibly dangerous and antidemocratic.

A company is known by the people it keeps.

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom. Just like right now with the whole mortgage crisis, I want to help people get back into their homes.

A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.

A confidence problem exists on the part of the people of the region who desire democratic rule in principle, but remain suspicious of both the fashion with which democratization is presented and the purposes of the democratic world.

A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.

A consolidation makes sense only if you can lower your overall interest rate. Many people consolidate by taking out a home equity line loan or home equity line of credit (HELOC), refinancing a mortgage, or taking out a personal loan. They then use this cheaper debt to pay off more expensive debt, most frequently credit card loans, but also auto loans, private student loans, or other debt.

A constant ongoing joke among the people that I travel with is my absolutely hopeless sense of direction. I'm able to get lost a half an hour from camp. I don't know how I do this.

A constitution founded on these principles introduces knowledge among the people, and inspires them with a conscious dignity becoming freemen; a general emulation takes place, which causes good humor, sociability, good manners, and good morals to be general. That elevation of sentiment inspired by such a government, makes the common people brave and enterprising. That ambition which is inspired by it makes them sober, industrious, and frugal.

A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.

A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

A conundrum of music is that music brings people together, yet to become a skilled musician involves a certain amount of lonely time in which you're just figuring it out, practicing.

A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.

A contemporary or near-future book is much harder because you can't fake the facts. There are people alive who know much more than you do about the subject. You have to really have your research together - and of course no one can know everything about a topic.