Jerry Bridges Quotes
Grace is the love of God shown to the unlovely. It is God reaching downward to people who are in rebellion against him.
Quotes to Explore
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Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.
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What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
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You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.
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I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.
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For better or worse, we have evolved for sure, but we've also maintained a certain core about who we are, which is we were raised on late '50s and early '60s rock n' roll and R&B, and you can always hear that throughout. And that's just always been who we were. As much as we've evolved, that's stayed the same.
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Look up from what you're doing and look around for a minute. See what a beautiful world you're in.
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At the resurrection, there will be the return of spirits to their bodies, the revivification of the bodies, and the remaking of the bodies.
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And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.
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I don't get claustrophobic.
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Fredo Lampe. Am Rande Der Nacht. For me, name and title evoked those lighted windows from which you cannot tear your gaze. You are convinced that, behind them, somebody whom you have forgotten has been awaiting your return for years, or else that there is no longer anybody there. Only a lamp, left burning in the empty room.
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Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent a god in the first place?
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If there were never any clouds (sorrows and sufferings) in our lives, we would have no faith. God does not come near us without clouds.
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Your father's an asshole. It's not a disease. You don't have to catch it.
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The point of life is not who falls down. The point is who gets up and how you do it.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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Living down your own past was hard enough. You shouldn't have to live down someone else's.
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Why do we value leadership, connection and grace? Because it's scarce, and that scacity creates value.
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I've always loved short stories. Even before I was a writer I was reading short stories - there were certain writers where I just felt like they could do in a short story what so many writers needed a whole novel to do, and that was really inspiring to me. Alice Munro, I felt that way about from an early time. Grace Paley.
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Grace is the love of God shown to the unlovely. It is God reaching downward to people who are in rebellion against him.
