E. Stanley Jones Quotes
Your powers are dead or dedicated. If they are dedicated, they are alive with God and tingle with surprising power. If they are saved up, taken care of for their own ends, they are dead.
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I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
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It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.
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Growing up in San Diego, I can remember going with my brother to see bands like Pennywise and NOFX - good punk bands that were fast and tight.
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When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run.
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'Thrones' would be the perfect platform to send a progressive message because right now, our politicians aren't telling us any truths. It's hard to find a good, meaningful message, so I think it's up to storytellers, television shows, and films to have an impact on the world conversation. Is that not what film and television is for?
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Fifty-nine cents. For years, I wore a button - '59 cents.' Many of my colleagues wore it also. The purpose was so that people would come up and ask, 'What does '59 cents' mean?' One could then launch into a discussion about how women working full time in the U.S. earn 59 cents for every dollar earned by men.
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What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
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If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.
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I'm so programmed to getting up early that I like to make the most of the day.
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If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.
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I'm a guy of 92kg. I haven't got the physique of someone who can work back and then sprint up front again throughout a match!
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Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.
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So many people have that story as to how they could have maybe won the Indy 500, which is for me the ultimate goal. I would imagine for a lot of people it's the ultimate goal. It's definitely high up on the list.
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My views as an individual ought not to be confused with my views as a scientist - the minute you try to mingle God and science, you get into trouble. Metaphysics has its place, and science has its place; don't mix the two.
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God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.
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But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.
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I think I beat myself up more than anyone else.
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I like people who are able to keep pushing themselves and challenging themselves even after great success.
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Finding creative and effective ways to simultaneously give back and economically empower people is something that is increasingly important. Not everyone can open a business and directly create jobs in the way that we have at Red Rooster Harlem.
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It's the Idea that wins every time - the Idea with brains and guts behind it.
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There is a certain percentage of the white population ... if they started having more middle-class black kids who are friends with their kids, eating Cheerios in their kitchen, their attitudes start changing.
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Your powers are dead or dedicated. If they are dedicated, they are alive with God and tingle with surprising power. If they are saved up, taken care of for their own ends, they are dead.
