N. T. Wright Quotes
My aim has been to expound Scripture and to expound Scripture in such a way that I do not set one Scripture over against another.
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This is a medical service. It always was.
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If the law tries to legislate our 'yeses' and 'noes' it will produce 'the straitjacket generation' – a generation afraid to flirt, fearful of finding its love notes in a court suit. Date rape legislation will force suitors and courting to give way to courts and suing.
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One of the key ingredients of coexistence and successful cooperation is trust.
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I wanna be your happiness.I wanna be your common sense pain.
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If I'm feeling like rock, we'll do some of that, and if I'm feeling some other way, we might do some of that. So, that's typically how I record and write and play music and anything else.
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We must organize. We must protest. We must cry out in a loud voice that America needs a raise. We must keep working until workers in this country don't have to struggle to make ends meet.
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It is difficult to take in that your idols are in the same place as you are.
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With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county.
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I went to the University/Resident Theatre Association auditions. Deans come and watch you in this theater. You have three minutes, and you have to do two contrasting monologues - at that time, this is 2003 - one classical and one contemporary.
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I always feel kind of awkward when I look at pictures of myself. Watching videos of myself is really uncomfortable.
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At culinary school, none of the things we use to define ourselves outside that world - actor, producer, student - none of that matters. It's a magical art form.
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One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.
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If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be playing the theme song from 'Three's Company'.
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Foreign students... big part of our economy.
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Many Americans don't mourn in public anymore - we don't wear black, we don't beat our chests and wail.
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The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness.
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Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself.
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If God says, 'I forgive you,' you are forgiven no matter how you feel, and to refuse that forgiveness is an act of arrogance.
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The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation. That's history. A writer who writes straight is the architect of history.
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Then, once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I've been doing that for 25 years. The soul searching part of it, the spontaneous part of it, that was, and remains, a really terrific process.
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I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worked in for years and years. It is just as much an office as a bedroom, and during the day, my bed is rather like an extension of my desk.
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Only the person blinded by the passion of controversy could deny that woman in soul and body is formed for a particular purpose. The clear and irrevocable world of Scripture declares what daily experience teaches from the beginning of the world: woman is destined to be wife and mother.
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I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in my utter foolishness I did not know the word of Your Scripture that none can be continent unless You give it.
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My aim has been to expound Scripture and to expound Scripture in such a way that I do not set one Scripture over against another.
