R. C. Sproul Quotes
When God's justice falls, we are offended because we think God owes perpetual mercy. We must not take His grace for granted. We must never lose our capacity to be amazed by grace.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.
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I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.
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I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
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'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.
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The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
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US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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I've traveled more than any human being who's ever lived.
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Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
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Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official.
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The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer or bludgeon. She reads on planes to picket the antiseptic nature of modern travel, on commuter trains to insist on individualism in the midst of the herd, in hotel rooms to boycott the circumstances that separate her from her usual sources of comfort and stimulation, during office breaks to escape from the banal conversation of office mates, and at home to revolt against the pervasive and mind-deadening irrelevance of television.
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To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.
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I’d say I was doing a great job submitting to God by submitting to my desires. Who do you think gave me desire in the first place?
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You can be a great father if you are willing to let God use you as an instrument.
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When God's justice falls, we are offended because we think God owes perpetual mercy. We must not take His grace for granted. We must never lose our capacity to be amazed by grace.
