Jerry Bridges Quotes
We believers do need to be challenged to a life of committed discipleship, but that challenge needs to be based on the gospel, not on duty or guilt. Duty or guilt may motivate us for awhile, but only a sense of Christ's love for us will motivate us for a lifetime.
Quotes to Explore
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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It's healthy to have interests besides books.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.
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I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was the clang of people carving turkey during the set. If you put comedy and turkey side by side, turkey always wins.
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Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.
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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself - but whether you can bless other people.
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I love acting, but I want to explore other things.
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The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.
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To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.
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I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.
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Dennis to friend: No use crying, Joey. There aren't any grownups around.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Any life he'd ever heard of, his own included, was burdened with emotions - love, loss, jobs, jealousy, money, death, pain. But if you were Jewish, always there was this extra one, the added pull at your endurance, the one more thing. There was that line in Thoreau about 'quiet desperation' - that was indeed true of most men. But for some men and women, for some fathers and mothers and children, the world still contrived that one extra test, endless and unrelenting.
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The kingdom of god... or nothing!!!
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It's a false proposition that we have to take the arts away to fund something else.
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Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, it's always been there. It's been there since I was 10 years old, having the imagination that I had.
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The music business would be much better, for the youth and the kids, if they start hiring employees that understand the kids.
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Hutchinson is a big dude and he has very sound technique
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We believers do need to be challenged to a life of committed discipleship, but that challenge needs to be based on the gospel, not on duty or guilt. Duty or guilt may motivate us for awhile, but only a sense of Christ's love for us will motivate us for a lifetime.
