R. C. Sproul Quotes
But the blessing Christ promised, the blessing of great reward, is a reward of grace. The blessing is promised even though it is not earned. Augustine said it this way: Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts.
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I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
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Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.
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I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.
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We Europeans have a long tradition of cultural and economic relationship with Iran.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.
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Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
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I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned about. Every night I think about this.
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Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.
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I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.
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To be wise means to be a teacher, means to be a soul winner. That's our business - That's our only business!
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The features of globalization have huge consequences on pandemics. It just connects us so much more closely... And as a consequence, every one of these viruses that passes from animals to humans has the capacity to infect all of us.
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Celebrity culture is an aspirational culture regardless of how much you don't want it to be.
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I'm not just coming here for a payday. I'm not an old guy at the end of my career looking for a payday. I've got a title to keep.
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In Texas, we practically come out of the womb in jeans.
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But the blessing Christ promised, the blessing of great reward, is a reward of grace. The blessing is promised even though it is not earned. Augustine said it this way: Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts.
