Jerry Bridges Quotes
Holiness is not a series of do’s and don’ts but conformity to the character of God and obedience to the will of God.
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I've never been one for keeping a journal, so my songs were my journals. They allowed me to express my feelings and let people know what was going on with me. I knew that somebody would relate.
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I think an awful lot of the diplomatic problems that exist in the world come from people assuming that their society is the one with a purchase on truth.
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.
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Give me, for my life, all lives, give me all the pain of everyone, I'm going to turn it into hope. Give me all the joys, even the most secret, because otherwise how will these things be known? I have to tell them, give me the labors of everyday, for that's what I sing.
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I am not concerned about getting reelected. I can make the unpopular but necessary decision. Your focus from day one is on your legacy rather than political considerations.
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The biggest problem is our lack of "response-ability." That's what happens when money rather than love is the bottom line. People act like idiots.
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If you can see life as a learning experience, you can turn any negative into a positive.
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L.I.F.E. = Living Inspired & Fulfilled Everyday.
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Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.
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The heavenly motions... are nothing but a continuous song for several voices, perceived not by the ear but by the intellect, a figured music which sets landmarks in the immeasurable flow of time.
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If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.
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Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it.
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Our kids just aren't living in the same generation, and if they're not introduced to gender identity as a problem, they won't internalize them as a problem. Which isn't to say they won't meet bigotry in their lives.
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My main goal is to tell a story.
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Around 1974, I graduated into the occult, and spent a sold six or seven years immersed in the Kabala and the Chaldean, Celtic, and Druidic traditions I also became fascinated with Aleister Crowley, the nineteenth-century magician who shared these beliefs.
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I wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next.
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Mankind's expectations have to be greater than ourselves and that the further out there we go, the more we find out that it's about you and me.
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Holiness is not a series of do’s and don’ts but conformity to the character of God and obedience to the will of God.
