Jerry Bridges Quotes

Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer.

Jerry Bridges

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• Hearts
• Resentment

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• It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Up
  • Time
  • Government

• People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • First
  • Meeting

• I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • Food
  • Myself
  • Speak

• On 'Paranormal Activity,' it worked to my advantage not to have much of a crew, but on a bigger movie, where you have to work with a larger group of people who basically become your second family for a few months, it can be a great experience. Even though all of my projects are small scale compared to most Hollywood productions.

  

  Oren Peli
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.

  

  Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Want

• Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • You
  • Listening

• I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.

  

  Raekwon
  • Business
  • History
  • Marketing

• I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Three
  • Train
  • Nervous

• Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Money
  • Friendship
  • Keep

• There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy flying in the sky and beating up on some buildings. It's boring, and people don't want that anymore. They want character, and they want story.

  

  Finn Jones
  • People
  • Up
  • Character

• The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • College
  • Back
  • Worth

• No cricket should be played for at least a month anywhere in the world after a World Cup.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • World
  • Cricket
  • Month

• One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • World
  • Hope
  • Curiosity

• Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Remember
  • Actors
  • Fact

• Don't eat me. I have a wife and kids. Eat them.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Wife

• I'm never trying to break a career high out there.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Trying
  • High
  • Career

• I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my passion with overexcited poets rather than pampered painters.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • Passion

• There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain.

  

  Georges Pompidou
  • Man
  • Ways
  • Spoil

• Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Mind
  • Challenge
  • Challenges

• There was one point where my mother was dying of lung cancer, and a journalist dressed up as a nurse and got in the house to get a picture of her, dying of lung cancer and stuff like that, and then you realise the fame's not all it's cracked up to be.

  

  Pete Burns
  • Up
  • Mother
  • House

• Ethno-sectarian violence is a particular concern in Iraq, as it is a cancer that continues to spread if left unchecked.

  

  David Petraeus
  • Violence
  • Cancer

• We came out flat in the third quarter. I think we thought it was OK to play them a good half.

  

  Kenny Johnson
  • Good
  • Play
  • Half

• Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • Cancer
  • Hearts
  • Resentment