Jerry Bridges Quotes

We're more concerned about our own "victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sins grieve God's heart.

Jerry Bridges

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• God's Heart

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• I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Good
  • Think
  • Story

• At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Mother

• It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • May
  • Economic
  • Destruction

• After 'The Sisters Brothers,' I tried to write a contemporary story dealing with an investment adviser in New York City who moves to Paris. I did all this research, but after about a year and any number of pages written, I was bored stiff.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • City
  • New
  • New York

• At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.'

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Family
  • She
  • Fun

• My life is so full of sacrifices.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Full

• Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Different
  • Purpose
  • Often

• Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Exercise
  • New
  • Insecurity

• I cannot step into any day without help. I have a fantastically engaged husband who is very present for his children and our family life. We've got a brilliant nanny, other help from parents-in-law, godparents, friends. Also, I've had incredible women around me in the business.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Life
  • Women
  • Children

• One thing I do understand is that people get scared when I start thinking out loud.

  

  Larry Wall
  • People
  • Thinking

• The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.

  

  Mark Millar

• Of course China, of course Mexico do not want Donald Trump. They know if he gets in and becomes President of the United States, the days of taking advantage of the United States are over.

  

  Corey Lewandowski
  • Trump

• If I'm an entrepreneur and I have an idea, and I don't have the development talent around me but I need to find a developer, I would do my selection just like I would with hiring an employee.

  

  David Cohen
  • Entrepreneur

• No, it's interesting to remake a film for the contemporary audience today. I think it's a good idea; it needs to respect the original idea. Don't just take the title and change everything else.

  

  Dario Argento
  • Good
  • Today
  • Interesting

• There was a part of me that always wanted to be an editor.

  

  David Grann

• We should all strive to be extraordinary, and that starts with a focus on our own capabilities instead of those of our opponents.

  

  Don Yaeger
  • Focus

• I don't understand why we give up genres, and the Western is a great genre. It's a part of the rich history of cinema and who we are as we've evolved as people, as a community.

  

  Antoine Fuqua
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• Therefore they should come to the table and reach an agreement that would protect their identity.

  

  John Hume
  • Identity

• You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.

  

  Chuck Close
  • Great
  • Art
  • Why

• Where has thou been all the dumb winter days When neither sunlight was nor smile of flowers, Neither life, nor love, nor frolic, Only expanse melancholic, With never a note of thy exhilarating lays?

  

  Alfred Austin
  • Life
  • Smile
  • Winter

• For we seek not the worldwide victory of one nation or system but a worldwide victory of man. The modern globe is too small, its weapons are too destructive, and its disorders are too contagious to permit any other kind of victory.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Small
  • Victory

• Like every mother, my wish - every birthday - is for my children to stay healthy (and) for my family to remain healthy.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Children
  • Family
  • Mother

• Mike Krieger and I started talking, and he decided he liked the idea of helping start the company. Once he joined, we took a step back and looked at the product as it stood.

  

  Kevin Systrom

• We're more concerned about our own "victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sins grieve God's heart.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • Victory
  • Sin
  • God's Heart