Jerry Bridges Quotes
God's sovereignty does not negate our responsibility to pray, but rather makes it possible for us to pray with confidence.
Quotes to Explore
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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If you don't change, you're dead, so I try to keep changing.
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A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.
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Taking care of your employees is extremely important and very, very visible.
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'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.
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What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
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I have only one counsel for you - be master.
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Film is a window to the real world but a lie that makes you believe the unbelievable.
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Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
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Both European and American historians have done away with any conceptual limits on what in the past needs and deserves investigating. The result, among other things, has been a flood of works on gender history, black history, and ethnic history of all kinds.
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I am extremely privileged to serve Rhode Island in the United States Senate, and that is my only goal and aspiration.
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Don't let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.
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People don't want to embrace culture shifts because it's not going to happen in the next 20 minutes.
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When my grandchildren are older and my great-grandchildren start growing up, first of all, I want them to be in Israel. I don't want them to leave the country because they have no choice.
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Resolution 1441 does not give anyone the right to an automatic use of force. Russia believes that the Iraqi problem should be regulated by the Security Council, which carries the main responsibility for ensuring international security.
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Breathe through your movements.
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I try personally not to be nostalgic.
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The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion that the sense of man is the measure of things. On the contrary, all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
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Wealth is a form of power in our society. With great power comes great responsibility. If you have too much wealth, ipso facto, you have too much power - therefore you have too much responsibility - and you're a kind of dictator.
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You know when you read that someone has to leave a show or a tour because they had 'nervous exhaustion'? Well, I had one of those and discovered that I was quite close to death. I always assumed that my lifestyle was going to take me at an early age, but when it was actually occurring I was, 'Not yet!' I pulled back.
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Drumming is the simplest thing that we can do to bring us together.
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God's sovereignty does not negate our responsibility to pray, but rather makes it possible for us to pray with confidence.
