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.

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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.

  

  J. Carter Brown
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Movie

• 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.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Time
  • Home
  • She

• Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

  

  Mae West
  • Office
  • Reward
  • Box

• Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Always

• 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.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Bad
  • Myself
  • Deep

• I think you have to feel comfortable with your car. You have to go into turn one, every lap, with confidence. You have to be sure of yourself and your equipment.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Car
  • Confidence
  • Yourself

• I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Work
  • Movies
  • Alien

• I will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long-term.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Long
  • Day
  • Everyday

• It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it.

  

  Salman Rushdie

• 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...').

  

  Lester Bangs
  • Music
  • Death
  • Rock

• Last night Alexis got his script for Angel. I was like, 'Oh, I would have been getting a Buffy script right now.'

  

  Alyson Hannigan
  • Night
  • Angel

• When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

  

  Liberty Hyde Bailey
  • Alone

• Winning titles plays a big role in the Ballon d'Or race.

  

  Neymar
  • Winning

• 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.

  

  Jacqueline Novogratz
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• I'm fascinated by beautiful scenery and what we have here on this Earth.

  

  Matt Lanter
  • Beautiful
  • Earth

• I'm always finding a way to be successful.

  

  Jalen Brunson

• 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.

  

  Bill Plympton
  • Up
  • Shadow

• Academics are becoming much more entrepreneurial these days.

  

  Chris Toumazou

• 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?

  

  Jamais Cascio
  • Live
  • Political

• If I could, I'd be a recluse. I do want to be one. I'm trying really hard. But it's a difficult thing to pull off in this job.

  

  Chris Lowe Pet Shop Boys
  • Trying
  • Job

• I like playing in other projects.

  

  Jesse Harris

• The openness on which Apple had built its original empire had been completely reversed - but the spirit was still there among users. Hackers vied to 'jailbreak' the iPhone, running new apps on it despite Apple's desire to keep it closed.

  

  Jonathan Zittrain
  • Running
  • Desire

• By the law of averages, there has to be life elsewhere. The universe is so huge, and I don't think God would have created this whole big huge cosmos and just say there's only going to be life on Earth, and that's it.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Life
  • God
  • Earth

• 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.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • God
  • Action
  • Directed