Jerry Bridges Quotes

No detail of your life is too insignificant for your heavenly Father's attention.

Jerry Bridges

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• And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • America
  • Interesting
  • Myself

• On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.

  

  Candace Parker
  • School
  • High
  • Reality

• I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Up
  • Church
  • Lot

• It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Life
  • Wise

• Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.

  

  Finn Jones
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • World
  • Security

• I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Time
  • Revolution
  • Process

• Sometimes it takes a brush with eternity - a crash, an illness, some shock to the system - to get you really thinking about what you want to do with your limited time here, and why you're living on this wobbling dirt clod in the first place.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Why

• I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Great
  • Joy
  • Sleep

• Balance is if you try hard, you work hard then the rewards are in balance with what you put in and what is available.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Work
  • Balance
  • Work Hard

• America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.

  

  Ilka Chase
  • America
  • Man
  • Best

• You don't have to be a bodybuilder to have strength in your muscles.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • You
  • Strength
  • Muscles

• When I started selling air conditioners early on, customers were willing to pay an extra 200 yuan to buy from Suning. Why? Service was good.

  

  Zhang Jindong
  • Good
  • Why
  • Air

• Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Positive
  • Rights
  • Election

• A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that they have little quality emotion and energy left for their children, much less their husbands.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Women
  • Children
  • Job

• Although there were many who did the dirty on him in the envious world of letters, Stephen

  

  Barry Humphries
  • World
  • Dirty

• A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'.

  

  Leo Burnett
  • Good
  • Important
  • Today

• The book may be garbage, but if it weighs in at a kilo or more, I stand before its author in awe.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • May
  • Book
  • Author

• Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people who have short attention spans. They're only a click away from a picture of a funny cat, so you have to make your thing more compelling than that cat. And that can be a high bar.

  

  Alexis Ohanian
  • People
  • Business
  • High

• Why don't men like to stop and ask directions? This question, which I first addressed in my 1990 book 'You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation', garnered perhaps the most attention of any issue or insight in that book.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• God bless Interlibrary Loan. I pay a lot of library fines. In the case of 'A Single Shard,' I was using books that hadn't been checked out in 30 years, so I didn't feel too bad.

  

  Linda Sue Park
  • God
  • Bad
  • Single

• As we grow in holiness, we grow in hatred of sin; and God, being infinitely holy, has an infinite hatred of sin.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • God
  • Sin
  • Grow

• Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserve.

  

  Plato
  • Trouble
  • Deserve
  • Wise Man

• No detail of your life is too insignificant for your heavenly Father's attention.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • God
  • Attention
  • Detail Of Life