Jerry Bridges Quotes
Every day that we're not practicing godliness we're being conformed to the world of ungodliness around us.
Quotes to Explore
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Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.
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From the first audition on stage, I knew I loved acting.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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To give one's heart is to give all.
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Prayer in action is love, and love in action is service. Try to give unconditionally whatever a person needs in the moment. The point is to do something, however small, and show you care through your actions by giving your time ... Do not worry about why problems exist in the world - just respond to people's needs ... We feel what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean, but that ocean would be less without that drop.
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Opera does not call so much for an imaginative ear as for an imaginative eye, an eye which can see beyond little absurdities toward great truths.
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No one needs anything; they have to want it.
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A strong friendship doesn't need daily conversation or being together. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends never part.
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My greatest weapon is mute prayer.
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Here am I, a human being and that has a body that is getting old. And I only have one, I can't trade it in.
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Slotted spoons don't hold much soup.
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With every pill we have prescribed for us we should also be given a creative prayer, a suggested way to correct our destructive patterns of thought.
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My father is Indonesian Timorese, my mother Aboriginal Australian.
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What the hell is happening to the world when those who were at the origin of... international humanitarian law start questioning in public debates whether it has any relevance or should be respected?
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[I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist] but that only goes to underline the point I'm trying to make about the need to broaden our account of the tradition!
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Truthfulness is godliness.
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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
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With advancing years many men become brittle and sapless. Rather than becoming the epitome of ripened godliness, spiritual vigor and ministerial energy, they become like dried trees – half dead, with autumn leaves barely hanging upon them and with very little fruitfulness.
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To the extent that children with similar characteristics achieve comparable performance levels, using the performances of similar peers is likely to yield more accurate self-appraisal than using the accomplishments of dissimilar peers.
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Literature is a form of language that breaks with the whole definition of genres as forms adapted to an order of representations, and becomes merely a manifestation of a language which has no other law than that of affirming in opposition to all other forms of discourse its own precipitous existence.
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Every day that we're not practicing godliness we're being conformed to the world of ungodliness around us.
