Jerry Bridges Quotes
Modern Christians, especially those in the Western world, have generally been found wanting in the area of holiness of body. Gluttony and laziness, for example, were regarded by earlier Christians as sin. Today we may look on these as weaknesses of the will but certainly not sin. We even joke about our overeating and other indulgences instead of crying out to God in confession and repentance.
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The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
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If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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They're just my weaknesses. Everyone is just constantly talking to me about it. It doesn't help.
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I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.
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The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.
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One challenge in this industry is that you adopt a certain look for a movie, and then people don't get to see the movie for a year!
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I really enjoy being an actor!
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I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man.
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I was on the snowboard team at my school, but that was the only sports team I was on. I played soccer growing up in elementary school.
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We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
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The Bush Doctrine is democratic imperialism. This will bleed, bankrupt and isolate this republic. This overthrows the wisdom of the Founding Fathers about what America should be all about.
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One thing I do understand is that people get scared when I start thinking out loud.
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There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
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I don't think young people are prepared for the moment of reckoning at the end of college - if you even go to college - where you have to get off of the hamster wheel and decide, 'Wait, where do I go from here?'
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I definitely enjoy being in front of people which gives me that exciting immediate rush.
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A thick skin is a gift from God.
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I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.
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I don't claim to be some Aaron Sorkin expert, but it is like a Camelot. His shows are a place where people are trying to reach their highest potential. And I think we miss that sometimes. If I got a chance to do 'The Newsroom,' I would have done it yesterday.
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Over the years, I have studied church history as well as the contemporary church, and I noticed how rare it is for a God-glorifying transition of leadership to take place in a local church.
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There's no such thing as an overnight success. It took me a long to get there.
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I like the idea of helping people help people.
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Modern Christians, especially those in the Western world, have generally been found wanting in the area of holiness of body. Gluttony and laziness, for example, were regarded by earlier Christians as sin. Today we may look on these as weaknesses of the will but certainly not sin. We even joke about our overeating and other indulgences instead of crying out to God in confession and repentance.
