Jerry Bridges Quotes
Instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time.
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It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
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The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
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When I'm in the city, I like to go to different events and get introduced to different people. That's what New York is all about. There is great diversity, and there are people from all over the world who have done amazing things. That's my favorite thing to do: meet new people.
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I remember one game when I pitched in Yankee Stadium and gave up five runs in the first inning. It would have been easy to quit, but I shut 'em out the rest of the way, and we came back and won the game.
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I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
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I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!
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I would love to do something like 'Fishing With John.'
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Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.
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What drives the creative person is that we see it all.
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We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.
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Conflict is the pursuit of truth.
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You see, at 25, I was very new to my craft. I was raw as an actor; my exposure was limited... No matter what field you are in, experience adds to your personality.
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I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person.
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'…as the cinema shows us, they are much more accessible and, for that matter, much more wanton than our own women'
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I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me.
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Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.
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What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.
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It has been said that I have three heroes: Christ, Marx and Freud. This is reducing everything to formulae. In truth, my only hero is Reality. If I have chosen to be a filmmaker as well as a writer it is because, rather than expressing reality through those symbols that are words, I have preferred the cinema as a means of expression - to express reality through reality.
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Take my hand and we'll go riding through the sunshine from above. We'll find happiness together in the summer skies of love.
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It’s not about what we do, or what we feel, it’s about what He did and what He felt. It’s about what Christ has done for us.
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Instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time.
