Jerry Bridges Quotes
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam.
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If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.
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I love running and I will always run.
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Education is gathering information and reading... No human being can thrive without some form of education. How you get it is up to you - the important thing is that you get it.
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Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand!
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I never do research unless it's extraordinary circumstances.
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Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.
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I just think of everything I do and how happy it will make me to do it. I don't like having my photograph taken, for instance, so I don't do that often.
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I'm not a libertarian in the sense that I think all these social programs should be abolished in any sense.
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I'm really lucky, because I've been able to go places and meet people you can only dream of.
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A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.
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I was in the airport and there were these big snowboarder guys and they had white masks around their necks, and as soon as they saw me, they put their masks on. So I just went, '*cough, cough, cough* You wanna egg rorr?'
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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.
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This kind of art - the dystopic future kind of art - is designed to make you uncomfortable.
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I try to stay in shape a little bit, but I don't obsess about it.
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When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?
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Looking for meaning in the ordinary seems like the most urgent thing that we can do.
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The commander's talents are given greatest scope in rough hilly country. Mountains allow him too little real command over his scattered units and he is unable to control them all; in open country, control is a simple matter and does not test his ability to the fullest.
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Animals praise a good day, a good hunt. They praise rain if they're thirsty. That's prayer. They don't live an unconscious life, they simply have no language to talk about these things. But they are grateful for the good things that come along.
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No circumstance is so big that He cannot control it.
