Jerry Bridges Quotes

God never wastes pain. He always uses it to accomplish his purpose. And his purpose is for his glory and our good. Therefore we can trust him when our hearts are aching or our bodies are racked with pain.

Jerry Bridges

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• I was living at home until about 27 and decided it was time to move out and move somewhere else, so that's what I did. I wanted it to be the right thing to do. I didn't want to buy something out of my price range; I didn't want to be stupid with my money, so I decided to stay at home. Luckily, my mum and dad were amazing.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Time
  • Money
  • Home

• Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Feeling
  • Space
  • Simple

• I didn't realise how much I ate Mexican food, like tacos and burritos three times a week, until I came to Europe and couldn't find any.

  

  Washed Out
  • Food
  • Week
  • Three

• In my humble opinion, change is stupid.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Change
  • Opinion
  • Stupid

• My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you write don't get made, and the ones that do get made are certainly - as a writer, they're not your vision.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Career
  • You
  • Vision

• They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Good
  • Book
  • Page

• Malebranche dirait qu’il n’y a plus une âme: Nous pensons humblement qu’il reste encor des cœurs.

  

  Edmond Rostand

• The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.

  

  Jack McDevitt

• The Outsider's miseries are the prophet's teething pains. He retreats into his room, like a spider in a dark corner; he lives alone, wishes to avoid people.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • People
  • Alone
  • Dark

• We work very closely together on the issue of annexation of Crimea and Russia’s attempt to actually conquer Ukraine. And actually they did so - conquered part of the territory. We tried to come to a peaceful settlement here on this.

  

  Angela Merkel
  • Work
  • Together

• Not too many people can afford for the wife to stay home and raise the kids.

  

  Eric Braeden
  • People
  • Home
  • Kids

• A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can write a short story for yourself. But for me, comedy by its nature is communal. If other people don't get it, I'm not sure why you are doing it.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • People
  • Why
  • Nature

• I've always liked New York, as I like towns with an edge and New York has a European feel, so when I came to play music here in the '80s it was a surprise to me.

  

  Billy Childish
  • Music

• I do have a nickname with my family; I'm called Snappy, because I do get to be a bit snippy at times. They call me Snappy Bear. That's from New Hampshire. My dad's called Crazy, my mother's Happy - it's a whole thing.

  

  Eliza Coupe
  • Family
  • Happy
  • Mother

• Jimmy Baldwin was the creator of contemporary American speech even before Americans could dig that. He created it so we could speak to each other at unimaginable intensities of feeling, so we could make sense to each other at yet higher and higher tempos.

  

  Amiri Baraka
  • American
  • Feeling

• I once said the Queen of England could use some fashion advice.

  

  Kathie Lee Gifford
  • Fashion
  • Advice

• Virginia 's tax system needs to be fixed. The time to act is now. Do not send me any more studies. Do not send me another piecemeal approach that confuses tinkering with real reform.

  

  Mark Warner
  • Time
  • Real

• We need one America - one that includes housing, education, jobs, access to capital, and economic inclusion for every American. This will create a stronger America.

  

  Byron Allen
  • American
  • America
  • Education

• I've got a great family and a beautiful house. I feel very lucky as far as my lifestyle is concerned. I'm not really interested in fame and all its trappings.

  

  David Morrissey
  • Great
  • Family
  • House

• When I was 16 the first girl I had a crush on wasn't interested at all. I liked her from afar for ages, and when I eventually got the courage and told her, and she wasn't into me.

  

  Luke Pasqualino
  • She
  • Girl
  • Courage

• I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • Want
  • Know
  • Me

• I don't want to play earnest. I'd rather play somebody who's kind of sleazy. It's much more fun, especially in a comedy. You don't want to be some earnest guy who's just trying to do the right thing but can't. I want to be doing the wrong thing intentionally.

  

  Jack Coleman
  • Trying
  • Fun
  • Guy

• Many of our attempts to understand Christian faith have only cheapened it. I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me. The little we do understand, that grain of sand our minds are capable of grasping, those ideas such as God is good, God feels, God loves, God knows all, are enough to keep our hearts dwelling on His majesty and otherness forever.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Good
  • God
  • Faith

• God never wastes pain. He always uses it to accomplish his purpose. And his purpose is for his glory and our good. Therefore we can trust him when our hearts are aching or our bodies are racked with pain.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • God
  • Pain
  • Trust