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.Jerry Bridges
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.
Igor Ivanov -
It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
Ian Rush -
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.
N. Scott Momaday -
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.
Tavi Gevinson -
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.
Patch Adams -
I wanted to write a story set in the Lovecraftian universe that didn't gloss over the uglier implications of his worldview.
Victor LaValle
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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.
Ian Anderson -
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.
Imtiaz Ali -
I've been through cancer, divorce, loss and bereavement, but they are things most humans go through.
Olivia Newton-John -
The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.
Samuel Johnson -
A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.
Samuel Johnson -
Knowing was better than not knowing. But not by much.
Orson Scott Card
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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.
Arlen Specter -
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.
Neil Gaiman -
Relationships or not, I believe that people don't need to know about my life beyond a certain point.
Deepika Padukone -
It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.
David Hume -
I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.
Maya Angelou -
I always thought what you wore underneath was as important as what you wear on top.
Donna Karan
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I think that technology is the best thing that ever happened to mankind. It's an absurd notion that somehow, 'My God, what are we going to do when driverless cars come along?' It's going to save lives on the road. And maybe, one day, we'll all be working four days a week and not five or six days a week.
Jamie Dimon -
Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.
Saint Augustine -
I am a woman. I write SF. And it's not acceptable to treat me as anything less than an equal. I won't stand for it.
Ann Aguirre -
I come from an era where lyrics were full of imagery and metaphor, and that's all I know. I think people miss that.
Dawn Angeliqué Richard -
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.
Jerry Bridges