John Eldredge Quotes
Most Christians are still living with an Old Testament view of their heart. Jeremiah 17:9 says, 'My heart is deceitfully wicked.' No, it's not. Not after the work of Christ, because the promise of the new covenant is a new heart.
Quotes to Explore
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.
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Our poker table is eight guys, and then I'm the ninth; I'm usually the only girl at the table.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
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I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't know how to describe it.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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I don't watch a lot of TV, but I watch cartoons. And documentaries.
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If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, 'I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the gratitude or respect, of no human creature; I have won myself a tender place in no regard; I have done nothing good or serviceable to be remembered by!' your seventy-eight years would be seventy-eight heavy curses; would they not?
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All literature is written by the old to teach the young how to express themselves so that they in turn may write literature to teach the old how to express themselves. All literature is written by mentally precocious adolescents and by mentally precocious senescents.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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Most Christians are still living with an Old Testament view of their heart. Jeremiah 17:9 says, 'My heart is deceitfully wicked.' No, it's not. Not after the work of Christ, because the promise of the new covenant is a new heart.
