Jerry Bridges Quotes
God will never allow any action against you that is not in accord with His will for you. And His will is always directed to our good.
Quotes to Explore
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No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
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I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.
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I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.
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I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.
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I will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long-term.
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It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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O.K., I'm a rock critic. I also write and record music. I write poetry, fiction, straight journalism, unstraight journalism, beatnik drivel, mortifying love letters, death threats to white jazz critics signed 'The Mau Maus of East Harlem,' and once a year my own obituary (latest entry: 'He was promising...').
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Last night Alexis got his script for Angel. I was like, 'Oh, I would have been getting a Buffy script right now.'
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When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.
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Winning titles plays a big role in the Ballon d'Or race.
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There's a real moral imperative in being an organization that takes the time to sit and listen to the customers and the people they're serving.
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I'm fascinated by beautiful scenery and what we have here on this Earth.
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I'm always finding a way to be successful.
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I look at some of my early stuff - back when I was 12 or 13 years old - and I was already doing cross-hatching back then. I don't know where I picked that up. I think I was in a hurry, and I wanted to shade something really fast, and I tried cross-hatching a shadow.
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Academics are becoming much more entrepreneurial these days.
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Sustainability is a seemingly laudable goal - it tells us we need to live within our means, whether economic, ecological, or political - but it's insufficient for uncertain times. How can we live within our means when those very means can change, swiftly and unexpectedly, beneath us?
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The fact that there is always a positive side to life is the one thing that gives me a lot of happiness.
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You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.
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The corporate facilities that we have here are as good as anywhere in Australia and the motorcycle people are certainly going to enjoy those.
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Men throw broken things away, but God never uses anything until he first breaks it.
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The method entails deliberating competently about all alternative courses of action which may or may not conduce to achieving your goals, attempting to anticipate the consequences of each course of action, and then choosing and sticking to one.
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God will never allow any action against you that is not in accord with His will for you. And His will is always directed to our good.
