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.

Jerry Bridges

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• Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.

  

  Ione Skye
  • Real
  • Me
  • Deep

• 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.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • White
  • Lincoln
  • Supremacy

• Everybody has problems.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Problems
  • Everybody

• 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.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Game
  • Football
  • Sports

• 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.'

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • She
  • Book
  • Funny

• 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?

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Time
  • Words
  • Meditation

• 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.

  

  Antonin Scalia

• To have noughtIs to have all things without care or thought!

  

  Coventry Patmore

• The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be in the arrangement of your chromosomes.

  

  Bella Abzug
  • Job

• 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.

  

  Elinor Wylie
  • Hate
  • Water
  • Cold

• 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.

  

  Lydia Lunch
  • Time
  • Music
  • Band

• I'm scared of everything. I think it's only sensible to be that way.

  

  Christopher Walken

• 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.

  

  Christophe Gans
  • Today

• Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

  

  Anthony Storr
  • Bold

• 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.

  

  Mary McDonnell
  • People
  • Opportunity

• I will only talk about my work. I have always stayed away from commenting on my personal life, and that remains unchanged.

  

  Karishma Tanna
  • Life
  • Work

• The feeling that's in your heart all the time comes out spiritually in your voice and the music.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Time
  • Music
  • Heart

• For me, there is a strong family connection to Boston and anything connected to Boston, which includes Fenway.

  

  John Williams
  • Family
  • Strong
  • Connection

• Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Unique
  • Contribution
  • Urgent

• It doesn't matter if you please the whole world and don't please Jesus. But if you please Jesus, it doesn't matter whom you displease.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • World
  • Jesus
  • Matter

• I wanted Jesus in 'A.D.' to be very, very, very human - to have those qualities of vulnerability and doubt and pain and sadness and loneliness. Once the resurrection happens and we see that Jesus has risen, it's almost complete, right? It's all about the joy and the smile and the happiness and the closeness to the disciples.

  

  Juan Pablo Di Pace
  • Jesus
  • Happiness
  • Risen

• Jesus did not die just to give us peace and a purpose in life; he died to save us from the wrath of God.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • Purpose
  • Jesus
  • God's Wrath