Jerry Bridges Quotes
As we become soft and lazy in our bodies, we tend to become soft and lazy spiritually.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony... that's the science and the craft.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.
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I cry a lot, and I have no problem with that at all. Listening to your emotions is part of being alive.
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Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.
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I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That's why I generally don't like alternate tunings and stuff like that. I like the boundaries of regular tunings.
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Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.
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So I wait for the day when I'll hear the key as it turns in the lock And the guard will say to me, 'Oh my patient prisoner you waited for this day and finally, you are free! You are free! You are free!'
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In my lifetime all our problems have come from mainland Europe and all the solutions have come from the English-speaking nations across the world.
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I haven't studied history - I couldn't give a discourse in medieval literature - but I am a personal historian, and I do a lot to take in the histories of the people around me.
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Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
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I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine... before she realizes she's reading.
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We're focusing on producing top, great athletes for the Olympics.
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I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris.
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When you're winning games, everyone thinks everything the manager says and does is fantastic. Then it goes the other way, and those earlier criticisms of players can backfire.
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I think our devotion to Mary is very beautiful. She has a sacred role in Catholicism, and her strong faith and humility are things we can learn from.
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I have read books that are so cliched and lazy, my eyes have bled. But I also have read books marketed under the chick-lit umbrella that are so honest, clever and gritty that I've wanted to give up writing and paint walls instead.
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As we become soft and lazy in our bodies, we tend to become soft and lazy spiritually.
