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 Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.
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If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience.
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If I can do anything in this time of my career, I want to make it easier for other actresses and girls who are growing up to go, 'I get to be a part of a comedy or an action film or a romantic comedy or a thriller or just a romance, without having to wind up with someone to complete us.' I complete me. I just got lucky that, after I completed myself, I met someone who could tolerate me.
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There's a slippery slope in regard to authority. If you say that the history in Genesis is not true, then you can just take man's ideas as true. When you go outside of Scripture, why shouldn't you just reinterpret what marriage means? So our emphasis is on the slippery slope regarding authority.
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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.
