Jerry Bridges Quotes
It is our response to our circumstances rather than the degree of difficulty that determines whether or not we are discontent.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't limit your audience.
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It's time to re-think charity. It's time to give charity the big-league freedoms we really give to business. The fight for these freedoms must be our new cause, because without them, all of our causes are ultimately lost.
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The first cellphone I owned was hardly a slim, high-tech device - it was more like a brick with buttons, only with worse reception. If you wanted to use your phone to give someone a message, you were better off throwing it at him and hoping you broke his car window.
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While it is often true that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, it seems like Yahoo's almost obsessive focus on Google is taking away from its other businesses.
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I live, to get out of what I live through.
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The catcher is in the middle of everything. He sees it best.
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But one thing is certain: the commandments have not changed. Let there be no mistake about that. Right is still right. Wrong is still wrong, no matter how cleverly cloaked in respectability or political correctness. We believe in chastity before marriage and fidelity ever after. That standard is an absolute standard of truth. It is neither subject to public opinion polls nor dependent upon situation or circumstance. There is no need to debate it or other gospel standards.
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The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.
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Worship is giving God the best that He has given you.
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Yes," he said. "I am sure. I double-checked everything after you went home yesterday. I even made a few improvements, just in case." The first part of that reassured her. The second part... not so much. "What kind of improvements?" "Oh, nothing, really. Mostly just streamlining. You really did very well; I certainly don't want you to think that I am one of those people who has to be in control all the- Oh, well, I suppose that's actually true- I do have to be in control all the time. But only because I am in charge, of course.
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The bottom line, ... is why should you be trying to get anybody on your side if you're doing the right thing in the first place?
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Use testimonial letters from satisfied customers at every opportunity.
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I have viewed the West as if it were not only the salvation of China but also the natural and ultimate destination of all humanity.
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On movies like Star Trek and Star Wars, you have so much that will be created or extended digitally, and it's a slippery slope where you can get lost in a world of synthetic.
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Iraq will not allow any action on its soil that could harm the U.S. We don't want any action from our soil to target our neighbors.
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Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.
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Self confidence is the ability to exercise restraint in the face of disrespect and still show respect in response.
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The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede. What stands in your way is that you have a much too willful will. You think that what you do not do yourself does not happen.
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I just want to be that to my children. The ultimate father.
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The individual who no longer has a rigid mind has found freedom. Life can be so easy. Refuse to let go and you are a person drowning; the more you struggle, the faster you sink.
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It is our response to our circumstances rather than the degree of difficulty that determines whether or not we are discontent.
