David Augsburger Quotes
Individualism. Narcissism. Value-free choices. These are all key elements in the decline of the practice of mutual accountability in Western churches, among clergy and laity alike.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
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You don't have to get it right the first time.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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Actually, my mom doesn't let me touch any of my money out of my bank. She says she is going to keep it there until I am 18, and I don't think anyone can touch that. No money has been taken out of there.
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I was very rebellious.
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I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lord Jesus, and to the extent that his merciful love allowed, have embraced with all my heart, now one, now the other, of these feet.
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I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.
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I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.
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You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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I will say the scope of the 'Supergirl' pilot was incredible. I've personally never been involved in something with such a huge production value and scope.
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When you are totally defeated you begin again to enjoy the small things around you. Just going to the mountains, not for victory or glory, but to enjoy nature or enjoy fine people. If you always succeed you enjoy the admiration of many people. Being defeated means being limited to the basis existential choices of life. If you can enjoy the quiet evening hours it is beautiful; a hero who always succeeds may not have time to enjoy such things.
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I've been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn't starving; I was going to eat the next day.
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Unlike other Taliban groups, the Haqqanis' approach to mayhem was worldly and sophisticated: they recruited Arabs, Pakistanis, even Europeans, and they were influenced by the latest in radical Islamist thought.
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Individualism. Narcissism. Value-free choices. These are all key elements in the decline of the practice of mutual accountability in Western churches, among clergy and laity alike.
