N. T. Wright Quotes
The word "salvation" denotes rescue. Rescue? What from? Well, of course, ultimately death. And since it is sin that colludes with the forces of evil and decay, sin leads to death. So we are rescued from sin and death.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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My father was a lawyer.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.
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The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
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On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.
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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
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Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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I've lived in Kansas for more than thirty years, and for half of those, I was part of a ranching family, so I'm writing about things I know and love.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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The good parts about being a public company are increased discipline, increased execution and increased transparency to make sure that you are really building a company for a hundred years.
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And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.
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A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a record of overcharging and underperforming.
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The reason that you call it 'grief' is because you've been programmed to believe that you should feel bad about death.
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Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.
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I've grown up seeing the pros and cons but I love it and I've always wanted to act. Throughout all the rejections at auditions, and especially when I finally did get something, both my parents have been so supportive and always told me it is all about passion and, if I was doing it because I love it, there's no wrong choice.
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The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.
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The word "salvation" denotes rescue. Rescue? What from? Well, of course, ultimately death. And since it is sin that colludes with the forces of evil and decay, sin leads to death. So we are rescued from sin and death.
