E. Stanley Jones Quotes
Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ.
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Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
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I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
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I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I think there's a very fine line. I listen to their advice. I take their medical expertise very seriously. But then I also, the reason I am where I am, the reason I play the way I play, is because I push beyond normal.
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I was a tomboy.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
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R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.
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Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
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I do think that the success, although still not complete... in the recognition of equal rights... to all Americans, regardless of color, creed and so forth, was also one of the best stories we've had to report.
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I create from a place of passion. It's like a pregnancy, where you create from a place of passion, and then it grows, and then before you know it, you want to push that baby out.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was.
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In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
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Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ.
