Erwin McManus Quotes
Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer's sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and man.
Quotes to Explore
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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Together, we can build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire, where our businesses can grow, flourish, and create good jobs for our people.
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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It's hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.
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Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to actually creating my own. Perhaps one day I will do all three: write, direct, and act in the same production. That might get a little hectic, though.
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I had to make squirrel noises as Bubbles and without realizing it, I was making the face and putting my fingers up to my face to look like a squirrel and everyone made fun of me for the rest of the day.
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But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.
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I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.
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I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.
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Affluence means influence.
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One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.
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And sure th' Eternal Master foundHis single talent well employ'd.
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Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.
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What makes the spectacle of Western bourgeois society so repulsive is the waste and squander of resources on needless products of status or display (e.g., the large, heavy automobile; the extravagant packaging of consumer items) for the sake of consumption.
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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
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The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
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Lawmakers in both political parties have often acceded to unions' requests to avoid political confrontations or to curry favor. They have pushed difficult choices into the future.
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For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.
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To me, 'selling out' means everyone bought a ticket.
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Do not lose heart, even if you should discover that you lack qualities necessary for the work to which you are called. He who called you will not desert you, but the moment you are in need he will stretch out his saving hand.
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Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the stars to a new telescope with a 200-inch reflector and beyond; not religion, that persists, and changes from old credulities and world views to new thoughts of God and larger apprehensions of his meaning.
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Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer's sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and man.
