Jerry Bridges Quotes
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People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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That's one thing the musicians don't remember: you don't choose your demographic - they choose you.
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What drives the creative person is that we see it all.
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The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship.
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I find L.A. kind of romantic, actually. As a movie junkie, it's a city that was built by the movies. There's something really weird and surreal about it that I find energizing.
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I don't doubt a number of those ballots, of those votes that were cast for me, probably were intended for Vice President Gore.
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Only get rid altogether of your nonsensical trash about the beautiful, which I nor anybody else, nor yourself to boot, could ever understand,-only free yourself of that, and your success in life is as sure as daylight.
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If people want to know the truth, why don't they just come to me and ask?
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Your task, O preacher, is to make sure that you are faithful to the text, that you are faithful to the proclamation of that gospel, that you are faithful to set forth the whole counsel of God, and then step back and let it happen.
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It is easy to turn our religious life into a cathedral for beautiful memories, but there are feet to be washed . . .
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Only do not forget, if I wake up crying it's only because in my dream I'm a lost child hunting through the leaves of the night for your hands.
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I stood on the balcony dark with mourning... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love.
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There are no 'come shoot me' clothes.
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Feelings are facts. Look straight at 'em and deal with 'em. Work it through, as honestly as you can. If God is anything like a middle-class white chick from the suburbs, which I admit is a long shot, it's what you do about what you feel that matters.
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Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.
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For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong.
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In Christ there is no East nor West.
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The best way not to fail again is to be absolutely positive that when you do it this time, you're going to do it right.
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So to pick and choose that once you come to Christ you're never going to struggle in those areas again or never fall prey to stumbling in those ways again, I just, I don't think we can assure that.
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God’s love to us cannot fail any more than His love to Christ can fail.
