Jerry Bridges Quotes
To live by grace is to live solely by the merit of Jesus Christ. To live by grace is to base my entire relationship with God, including my acceptance and standing with Him, on my union with Christ.
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I don't think even one per cent of the people in this world explore more than 10 per cent of all that this world has to offer. That's a shame!
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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I ain't going to sit here like, 'My neighborhood was hard, and I had to get out there and grind.' We made it hard for ourselves. We chose to stay on the streets.
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I've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director.
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I have always wanted my children's dads to be involved in their lives. Not just the day-to-day aspect, but the emotional shifts that they go through, when little things pop up - they need to be included, absolutely, and for the children to feel that they are.
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We're from Athens, GA.; we're big Bulldog fans, and I remember watching A. J. Green, David Pollock, David Greene. We were big Cowboys and Falcons fans.
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I have a very balanced posture about the political situation in my country.
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I am such a political person.
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Whiplash' was just a lucky kind of convergence of events in that I'd been trying to get a bigger project off the ground with no success for a while, and then finally, out of frustration, I just wrote this leaner, meaner, personal script about my experiences as a jazz drummer, and that's the one that wound up getting made.
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I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.
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If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.
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The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness.
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I love writing. It makes me so happy.
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I guess, if it wasn't for Jordan, there would be no LeBron or Kobe who plays like that.
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Then again you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.'
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On the relationship side, if you teach people to respond actively and constructively when someone they care about has a victory, it increases love and friendship and decreases the probability of depression.
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To live by grace is to live solely by the merit of Jesus Christ. To live by grace is to base my entire relationship with God, including my acceptance and standing with Him, on my union with Christ.
