Jerry Bridges Quotes
In His infinite wisdom, God allows trials in order to develop perseverance in us and to cause us to fix our hopes on the glory that is yet to be revealed... Our faith and perseverance can grow only under the pain of trial.Jerry Bridges
Quotes to Explore
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You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'
RaeLynn -
If God wants to take my left arm, that's OK, as long as I can walk and play with my kids. I'm a lot improved. I was worse than this after the accident.
Manute Bol -
As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia -
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Xenophon -
I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.
Natasha Trethewey -
Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
Victoria Osteen
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It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a scene and think to yourself, 'Oh, God. I was so deep in that moment,' and find it just didn't play. I don't know if I have very good radar about that or not.
Carey Mulligan -
If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.
Adam Hamilton -
Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith.
Sam Harris -
He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Abraham Lincoln -
One on God's side is a majority.
Wendell Phillips -
The rules, religion to religion that man set forth, made me shy away from religion and have my own one on one with God and cut out the middleman.
Ja Rule
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Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
Hal Borland -
Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.
Orson Scott Card -
I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.
James Hillman -
Film shouldn't be a pain. It's a creative process.
James Bobin -
If we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we truly see that here is a force for good that survives through millennia; here is truly light from light.
Pope Benedict XVI -
I can't help but tell people of the greatest story ever told - God's love and our eternal life.
David Green
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When I'm too worn out or in pain, I lie in bed and write in my mind.
Emil Ferris -
Politics are not the task of a Christian.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.
Xun Kuang -
I got fitter when I did 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.' I wore a loincloth - that's a lot of motivation!
Donny Osmond -
Government has got to invest more money in our NHS. The people who work in it are heroic. They do an amazing job.
Michael Gove -
In His infinite wisdom, God allows trials in order to develop perseverance in us and to cause us to fix our hopes on the glory that is yet to be revealed... Our faith and perseverance can grow only under the pain of trial.
Jerry Bridges