Jerry Bridges Quotes
Here is a spiritual principle: We cannot exercise love unless we are experiencing grace. You cannot truly love others unless you are convinced that God's love for you is unconditional, based solely on the merit of Christ, not on your performance. Our love, either to God or to others, can only be a response to His love for us.
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The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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The first sentence of a book is a promise.
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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
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Love of Mary and devotion to her are a sure sign of obtaining eternal salvation.
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It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world - a more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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You wish to put a positive construction on your deeds and words.
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If a reviewer is beating me up, I just say, 'Oh well, my writing is not to his or her taste.' And that's as far as it goes. Because I will simultaneously read a review where somebody says, 'Oh my God, I had so much fun reading this book and I learned so much.'
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Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.
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Here is a spiritual principle: We cannot exercise love unless we are experiencing grace. You cannot truly love others unless you are convinced that God's love for you is unconditional, based solely on the merit of Christ, not on your performance. Our love, either to God or to others, can only be a response to His love for us.
