Jerry Bridges Quotes
Biblical love is not emotions or feelings, but attitudes and actions that seek the best interests of the other person, regardless of how we feel toward him.
Quotes to Explore
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world.
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.
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In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments.
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I picked Harvard because it was in a big city, and a lot of girls' schools were nearby. And I liked President Kennedy, who went to Harvard.
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Wanted: a man who is larger than his calling, who considers it a low estimate of his occupation to value it merely as a means of getting a living.
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What we want as an economy is companies and people, you know, working hard to come up with creative ways to be more productive. We don't want companies and people working hard to lobby government for special tax cuts.
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Before 'Giant,' I had only ever worked with Michael Greif, Michael John LaChiusa and Kate Baldwin in readings. It's really exciting to be blessed with the opportunity to work with so many I would put in the 'genius' book.
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It's so easy for me to get caught up in the feeling of a city like Venice, where everything is just beautiful color and gorgeous buildings that are so peaceful. You can roam around and get lost in the labyrinth.
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The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
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I feel like I've set the example for loving your body no matter what size it is, but I also can set the example for being healthy as well.
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I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be.
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In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
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The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us.
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Emotions are core to everything we do.
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When the Treaty of Ghent ended the War of 1812, the British, in time-honoured fashion, abandoned their allies. Who were subsequently wiped out by the Americans along with any other tribes that happened to be in the same general vicinity – even those that had actually been allied with the US government during the war. It’s exactly this sort of thing, of course, which gives colonialism a bad name.
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Whatever you think rigor looks like, you should go up a few notches.
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Biblical love is not emotions or feelings, but attitudes and actions that seek the best interests of the other person, regardless of how we feel toward him.
