Jerry Bridges Quotes
Jesus did not die just to give us peace and a purpose in life; he died to save us from the wrath of God.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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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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Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.
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Everybody has problems.
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It's unbelievable. But I've never been to a pro football game. I've never been to a pro hockey game, either. I guess I'm not much of a sports fan.
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The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, 'I wish you hadn’t made every line funny. It’s so depressing.'
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Is there a poem that never reaches words And one that chaffers the time away? Is the poem both peculiar and general? There’s a meditation there, in which there seemsTo be an evasion, a thing not apprehended or Not apprehended well. Does the poet Evade us, as in a senseless element?
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I am persuaded, therefore, that the Maryland procedure is virtually constitutional. Since it is not, however, actually constitutional, I would affirm the judgment of the Maryland Court of Appeals reversing the judgment of conviction.
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To have noughtIs to have all things without care or thought!
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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be in the arrangement of your chromosomes.
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Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones There’s something in this richness that I hate. I love the look, austere, immaculate, Of landscapes drawn in pearly monotones. There’s something in my very blood that owns Bare hills, cold silver on a sky of slate, A thread of water, churned to milky spate Streaming through slanted pastures fenced with stones.
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To be in a band, at least according to the rules of rock in the 1970s, one must know how to play an instrument. But rather than waste time solving that problem, No Wavers ignored it. The point was simply to make music, not to learn how first.
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I'm scared of everything. I think it's only sensible to be that way.
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If you look at Buster Keaton or Douglas Fairbanks movies, what still amazes you today is their physical ability. The only special effects that never grow old are what you can do with the human body.
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Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.
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We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve.
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I will only talk about my work. I have always stayed away from commenting on my personal life, and that remains unchanged.
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The feeling that's in your heart all the time comes out spiritually in your voice and the music.
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Teaching children the joy of honest labor is one of the greatest of all gifts you can bestow upon them.
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Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.
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If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him.
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God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.
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I have tried at times to place humans in perspective against the vastness of universal time and space. I have been concerned with where we, as a race, may be going and what may be our purpose in the universal scheme - if we have a purpose. In general, I believe we do, and perhaps an important one.
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Jesus did not die just to give us peace and a purpose in life; he died to save us from the wrath of God.
