Jerry Bridges Quotes
God is at work in all the circumstances of your life to bring out the good for you, even if you had never heard of Romans 8:28. His work is not dependent upon your faith. But the comfort and joy that statement is intended to give you is dependent upon your believing it, upon your trusting in Him who is at work, even though you cannot see the outcome of that work.
Quotes to Explore
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If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.
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Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
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What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
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The interesting thing about London is that there are always stylish surprises around every corner.
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Women's tennis has been around for a very long time - we're talking about the 1800s. But women's soccer hasn't had such a long history, so now they're right at the beginning of really trying to make things equal. We need to continue not only to advocate for women but to have men advocating for women.
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There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.
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I follow so many beauty bloggers on Instagram.
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On a given day, you can have market fluctuations where prices fluctuate far more than the underlying economic value of the unit.
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At graduate school in 1999, I finally had the chance to examine why I believe what I believe. I realised that I'd had no period in my life where I'd consciously tried to develop my own theology.
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We're bigger now than we were in the late 70s when we were peaking.
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When discussing things with someone, it is best to speak appropriately about whatever the subject may be. No matter how good what you are saying might be, it will dampen the conversation if it is irrelevant.
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Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable.
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The belief in a political Utopia is especially dangerous. This is possibly connected with the fact that the search for a better world, like the investigation of our environment, is (if I am correct) one of the oldest and most important of all the instincts.
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You don't want to play a perfect person; no one cares about that.
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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Why are there no clouds in the sky? ... 'Cause God wants to watch his favorite band again!
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I hate myself, that I cannot believe it so constantly and surely as I should; but no human creature can rightly know how mercifully God is inclined toward those that steadfastly believe in Christ.
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There it is, fog, atmospheric moisture still uncertain in destination, not quite weather and not altogether mood, yet partaking of both.
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God is at work in all the circumstances of your life to bring out the good for you, even if you had never heard of Romans 8:28. His work is not dependent upon your faith. But the comfort and joy that statement is intended to give you is dependent upon your believing it, upon your trusting in Him who is at work, even though you cannot see the outcome of that work.
