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

• If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Fun
  • You
  • Rhythm

• The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Good
  • Famous
  • Theatre

• 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

• I just do my job and go home. There's just one or two people I can say are friends that I can call.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • People
  • Home
  • Job

• 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

• Right knows no boundaries and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.

  

  Learned Hand
  • Justice
  • Brotherhood

• Take back the night? How can women take back the night when they've never had it?

  

  Ellen Willis
  • Women
  • Night

• If I could I would kiss his wrists.If I had half the courage to face his pain.

  

  Masiela Lusha
  • Pain
  • Courage
  • Kiss

• This job has been given to me to do. Therefore, it is a gift. Therefore, it is a privilege. Therefore, it is an offering I may make to God. Therefore, it is to be done gladly, if it is done for Him. Here, not somewhere else, I may learn God’s way. In this job, not in some other, God looks for faithfulness.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • God
  • Job
  • Gift

• Friendship is very important to me. With some friends, we've known each other since we were kids and it's a very strong relationship. They always tell me what they think even when I am wrong. It's great to share with them the best moments. I also have many friends in the team, and I like to share my passion with them.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Great
  • Important
  • Kids

• God never allows pain without a purpose.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • God
  • Pain
  • Purpose