Mark Batterson Quotes
Part of my driving desire as a pastor is to remove every obstacle except the cross that would keep people from coming to faith in Christ.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don't remember it being very heavy-handed.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?
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I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach.
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The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
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You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
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Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.
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Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.
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Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.
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But you can't really know your audiences so well.
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Well, he's not going to get any nicer. He's a genocidal racist maniac. He's one of these people who thinks the world was a great place when Voldemort ruled the world. He's particularly offended by mixed-blood Mudbloods, the product of wizards and humans. So I hope he goes into therapy.
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One of the reasons I survived as well as I did was my genetics. My mother and father both had very tough lives, and boy, were they survivors.
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I can tell you who I'd like to work with as far as rock legends. Definitely Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters. Of course Linkin Park. Actually, I already worked with Travis Barker on a couple of things. Gotta let the drummer get some. Possibly Paramore, Hayley Williams.
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
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Part of my driving desire as a pastor is to remove every obstacle except the cross that would keep people from coming to faith in Christ.
