Jerry Bridges Quotes

We don't have to start all over again and try to keep the slate clean. There is no more slate.

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• I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Never
  • Race
  • Club

• And that's the way it is.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Way

• I don't think I have a black-hat image.

  

  Harold Simmons
  • Think
  • Black
  • Image

• We got to think of other ways to help these kids out because there's a lot of kids who get hurt in college and then don't make it to the NFL and don't have insurance, and their entire lives are changed when they put their bodies on the line for their school.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • School
  • Kids
  • Help

• I thought that I could have a career in music. I really didn't know exactly what I wanted to do or how I would go about doing it.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Career
  • Know

• Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
  • Age
  • You
  • Emotions

• The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity.

  

  Alfred Edward Newton
  • Soul

• Anger that has no limit causes terror, and unseasonable kindness does away with respect. Be not so severe as to cause disgust, nor so lenient as to make people presume.

  

  Saadi
  • People
  • Respect
  • Kindness

• Politics is a game of friends.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • Friends
  • Game
  • Politics

• Since shotguns are not military weapons, your local sporting goods dealer will have good information about them, as long as you aren't black, Spanish, or a white freak.

  

  William Powell
  • Long
  • Black
  • Military

• Let vice and immorality of every kind be discouraged as much as possible in your brigade; and, as a chaplain is allowed to each regiment, see that the men regularly attend during worship. Gaming of every kind is expressly forbidden, as being the foundation of evil, and the cause of many a brave and gallant officer's and soldier's ruin.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Kind
  • Evil

• You know that family is going to be there for you no matter what. My dad gave me a freakin' kidney!

  

  Sarah Hyland
  • Family
  • Dad
  • Kidney

• I am not the sort of woman who would wear high heels with a bathing suit. Let's get that straight right now.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Woman
  • Wear
  • Suit

• Thomas Gordon, founder of P.E.T. (Parent Effectiveness Training), observed that when children are behaving in a way that interferes with your ability to meet your needs, shouting direct orders to them doesn't work very well. So, he advised sending I messages. That is, a better alternative to, Your room is a disaster area-clean it up this minute, would be something like, I get embarrassed when Mrs. Johnson is visiting and sees your room looking this messy, so I need you to clean it up.

  

  Ben Yagoda
  • Children
  • Ability
  • Messages

• If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Facts
  • Will
  • Open

• That's what a conscience is made of, scar tissue ... Little strips and pieces of remorse sewn together year by year until they formed a distinctive pattern, a design for living.

  

  Margaret Millar
  • Together
  • Design
  • Conscience

• Hold back the tide. Keep your kids innocent as long as possible.

  

  Tony Danza
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Innocent

• We don't have to start all over again and try to keep the slate clean. There is no more slate.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • Clean
  • Slate