Jerry Bridges Quotes
Only when we're thoroughly convinced that the Christian life is entirely of grace are we able to serve God out of a grateful and loving heart.
Quotes to Explore
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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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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Clowning is a trick to get love close. I can hug 99 percent of people in the first second of contact if I'm in my clown character. The clown assumes your humanity. It assumes that, whatever trauma you've had, you can still love yourself.
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I wanted to write a story set in the Lovecraftian universe that didn't gloss over the uglier implications of his worldview.
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I'm very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or performance. The payoff is enormous - when you get it. Most of the time, though, I'm filled with self-loathing and general frustration at the limitations I have as a musician.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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I've been through cancer, divorce, loss and bereavement, but they are things most humans go through.
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The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.
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A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.
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But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.
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Knowing was better than not knowing. But not by much.
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We will submit legislation to the United States Senate which will...authorize the Congress to undertake judicial review of those signing statements with the view to having the president’s acts declared unconstitutional.
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Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.
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Relationships or not, I believe that people don't need to know about my life beyond a certain point.
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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.
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Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies.
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I have a place in Chicago and I get there as much as I can... The city is so unbelievably beautiful. It's one of the greatest cities on the planet. My heart beats differently when I'm in Chicago. It slows down and I feel more at ease.
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There is a self-love solution for every challenge.
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Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying.
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When I was a kid, I resented my grandparents not speaking the perfect English I wanted to speak.
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Only when we're thoroughly convinced that the Christian life is entirely of grace are we able to serve God out of a grateful and loving heart.
