Jerry Bridges Quotes
... self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit.Jerry Bridges
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
Zac Brown Band -
When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
Flannery O'Connor -
If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
Walter Gropius -
Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
Lady Gregory -
I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.
Jack Wild -
Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
Jack Nicklaus
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You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information.
Samuel Dash -
We have filmmakers who make films with some kind of responsibility and take cinema seriously like Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Prakash Jha. But now these people also take stars... Without stars they cannot work.
Om Puri -
I have always done work to which my heart says yes.
Yami Gautam -
When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.
Hans Haacke -
And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I'm really not that competitive.
Wayne Gretzky
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My confidence can come back very quickly.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
Even allegedly gender-neutral words like 'sexist' imply slights only against women.
Warren Farrell -
Alike all ages. Dames of ancient daysHave led their children through the mirthful maze,And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore,Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore.
Oliver Goldsmith -
A large plural society cannot be governed without recognizing that, transcending its plural interests, there is a rational order with a superior common law.
Walter Lippmann -
Charisms are not distributed at random but are dispensed by God to supply what is needful and lacking in his Church at each historical moment. If they are from God, they usually do not flow with the latest fashionable trend but much more likely contain an antidote and remedy for the perils of the time.
Hans Urs von Balthasar -
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Coco Chanel
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I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways.
Neil Innes -
I think a good relationship is about collaboration.
Jennifer Aniston -
Nigeria, with the oil sector, had the reputation of being corrupt and not managing its own public finances well. So what did we try to do? We introduced a fiscal rule that de-linked our budget from the oil price.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala -
Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life,-there, if one must speak out, the real man.
Marcus Aurelius -
Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood.
Patti Davis -
... self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Jerry Bridges