Eric Metaxas Quotes
People everywhere see the True, the Beautiful, and the Good and long to know their source. And, thank God, He has revealed Himself!
Quotes to Explore
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.
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In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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I don't think I can play Mr. Bachchan.
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In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
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If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
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I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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I'm an ordinary Tasmanian like everybody else, and I have weight issues; I have issues around finding the time to do the exercise and things, but in my role as Health Minister, and in my role as myself as well, I have to look after my own health.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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You must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul.
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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
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That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a maxim that has been long and generally approved; never, that I know of, controverted.
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Passion and true passion is actually very unpredictable. It heads in unexpected directions because it's constantly seeking out new challenges. But what's really interesting is that passion ultimately is necessary for sustained extreme performance improvement.
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Speaker Newt Gingrich has appointed a task force, which I'm on, and over the next couple months the task force is going to try to come up with legislation that does what we're all trying to do. I feel pretty good about the members that are on the task force.
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People everywhere see the True, the Beautiful, and the Good and long to know their source. And, thank God, He has revealed Himself!
