R. C. Sproul Quotes

By definition, the big difference between mercy and justice is that mercy is never ever obligatory.

R. C. Sproul

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• As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.

  

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• I think it must be so hard to start your career with everyone going on about how gorgeous you are. To be in that bracket must be so pressurised.

  

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• People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.

  

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• Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.

  

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• I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • School
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• I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
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• Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

  

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• I do interval training, high intensity dance, and yoga. I do run a lot, but more for speed.

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • High
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• I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • Up
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• Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Great
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• It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.

  

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• I think 'Trial & Retribution' as a brand can go on forever. Its joy is that it has, to an extent, a formula, which gives a comfort routine for viewers. But we allow our directors total autarchy in putting their personalities on their stories.

  

  Victoria Smurfit
  • Think
  • Joy
  • Forever

• It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Faith

• I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • Careful
  • Adventures

• For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
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• Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

  

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  • Evil
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• By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • City
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• I think there's a difference between "I Can" and "I Am." And "I Am" is really the goal that I'm looking for, rather than "I Can".

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Goal
  • Difference
  • I Can

• Parents are destined to sin against their kids; it's inevitable. As is narcissism and the human condition. Everyone has their ego and their ambitions. Life happens in between.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Life
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• Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Poetry
  • Sings

• Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being; and a society is civilised to the extent to which it makes this possible. Terrorism, which aims at putting out thespiritual light, is the antithesis of civilisation.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Society
  • Light
  • Human

• Too often, our minds are so burdened because of the mistakes we have made that we do not take the time to forgive ourselves and others and start over again.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Start
  • Mistakes
  • Forgive

• By definition, the big difference between mercy and justice is that mercy is never ever obligatory.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Justice
  • Difference
  • Mercy