Jerry Bridges Quotes
Some days we may be more acutely conscious of our sinfulness and hence more aware of our need of His grace, but there is never a day when we can stand before Him on our own two feet of performance, when we are worthy enough to deserve His blessing.
Quotes to Explore
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Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
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I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
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When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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My whole thing is loyalty. Loyalty over royalty; word is bond.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading.
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Hair wax is my go-to. When it comes to shampoo, I use whatever is at the rink.
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Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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Look, the justice system is made up of people. People have faults. It's not perfect.
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Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.
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The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.
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One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how banal the facts of it, simply the fact that the plot is rolling forward makes you wonder what's going to happen next, which creates suspense. So you can control peoples' attention simply by having things move forward in a story.
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Simply put, our nation's economy will only go as far as our small businesses will take it.
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If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.
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We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.
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The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills.
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May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face, and the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars.
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We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent - criticism.
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Some days we may be more acutely conscious of our sinfulness and hence more aware of our need of His grace, but there is never a day when we can stand before Him on our own two feet of performance, when we are worthy enough to deserve His blessing.
