Jerry Bridges Quotes
We must pray constantly for His enabling grace to say no to temptation, of choosing to take all practical steps to avoid known areas of temptation and flee from those that surprise us.
Quotes to Explore
-
You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
-
I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.
-
I went to Iceland in 1861 and went over nearly every bit of the ground made famous by the adventures of Grettir.
-
I'm not really a pianist.
-
It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
-
I don't like writing with real people in mind.
-
I don't think that technology is going to allow for greater subjugation of people. I think it's gonna give them more freedom.
-
My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.
-
I don't think music is the first thing I turn to. For me, I think visual art is more the thing. Sometimes when I've been doing music for a while, I can't really take any more in.
-
France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.
-
Maddie Ziegler is the most amazing dancer I've ever seen, and I'm so obsessed with her. I was obsessed with her even before she did her first Sia video.
-
I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, it's quick action and no fear, and sometimes it's irrational fear. You don't always know.
-
I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.
-
I am excited when I get a movie and I get to move somewhere for a certain amount of time. But I am a Cali girl.
-
Ch. 4 : The Garden
-
I'm super organized, but a horrible house cleaner.
-
I guess if you're lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren.
-
In scientific thought, the concept functions all the better for being cut off from all background images. In its full exercise, the scientific concept is free from all the delays of its genetic evolution, an evolution which is consequently explained by simple psychology. The virility of knowledge increases with each conquest of the constructive abstraction.
-
I have found that people who can successfully resist temptation invariably lead depressingly stunted lives.
-
To try something longer, I entered a half-hour radio drama contest with the national public broadcaster, CBC. To my surprise, I won. And that opened doors in film and television, because that broadcaster was looking to cultivate new Canadian talent, especially women who could write.
-
We must pray constantly for His enabling grace to say no to temptation, of choosing to take all practical steps to avoid known areas of temptation and flee from those that surprise us.
