Jerry Bridges Quotes

God never allows pain without a purpose.

Jerry Bridges

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• Indeed, our British friends have decided to leave us - which is very sad for all of us - but life goes on, and the European Union as well goes on.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Sad

• But I'm not objective when I'm acting.

  

  Laura Innes
  • Acting
  • Objective

• I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Life
  • Look
  • Accomplishment

• I don't want to fight anybody that just wants to hold you and try and eat the time.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Time
  • Want
  • Fight

• In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Way
  • Strange
  • Comfortable

• My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Life
  • Real
  • Done

• I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • Women
  • Mother

• Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl - nobody can judge unless they've worn those shoes.

  

  Olivia Hussey
  • People
  • World
  • Judge

• O king! I was but a man like others, asleep upon my couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious were wafted over me, and taught me the knowledge of all that hath been. This thing is not from me, but from One Who is Almighty and All-Knowing.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Man
  • Knowledge
  • King

• When it comes to remaking my own films in the English language, I can only imagine that it is a very boring process, I wouldn't ever dream of it.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Dream
  • English
  • Language

• People criticize you for trying new things. I think, 'I'm new! I'm 22!' I don't know exactly what my sound is or what I want my album to sound like, so I'm not releasing it yet. While I'm experimenting, I'll let you in on the journey, and you can hear it for free.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Trying
  • Free

• Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Mind
  • Church
  • Period

• I feel that the moment a date happens that it’s a social encounter that is potentially a sexual encounter. And the question of sex needs to be negotiated from the first moment on.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Question
  • Sex

• When we give trust, we receive trust. And people who trust us pay attention to us.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Attention
  • Trust

• Hell, that's why they make erasers.

  

  Clarence Darrow
  • Why

• We all walk softly away.We would stay and be the nurse butthere are too many of us and we are too worried to help.It is love that walks awayand yet we have terrible mouthsand soft milk hands.We worry with like.We walk away like love.

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Help
  • Worry
  • Nurse

• Though there were over 200 policemen standing around, none of them made a move to grab him.

  

  Al Sharpton

• I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Horse

• Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty.

  

  Baron d'Holbach
  • God
  • War
  • Selfish

• Before competition, as I stand in shoulder pads and cleats, my helmet in my left hand, adrenaline flowing and my heart raging under my right, I never forget the ills of America, but for a moment I envision its potential, remember its prosperity, and give thanks to God for the land He has placed me in and the people I love who live in it.

  

  Benjamin Watson
  • People
  • God
  • Live

• Every beggar shall be arrested. But to arrest a beggar merely in order to put him in jail would be barbarous and absurd. He should be arrested for the sole purpose of teaching him how to earn a living by his work.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Purpose
  • Jail
  • Arrested

• Religion should be about your relationship with God, not what the church says you can and can't do.

  

  Eddie Guerrero
  • God
  • Relationship
  • Religion

• God never allows pain without a purpose.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • God
  • Pain
  • Purpose