Oliver D. Crisp Quotes
In the chapter on the nature of the atonement [in the book saving Calvinism] I argue that it is a mistake to think that penal substitution is the only option on the doctrine of atonement.
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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Σάφ' εἰδότας χρὴ τῶνδε θυμοῦσθαι πέρι·τὸ γὰρ τοπάζειν τοῦ σάφ' εἰδέναι δίχα.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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Management did not emanate from nature. Management is not a tree: it's a television set. Somebody invented it. It doesn't mean it's going to work forever. Management is great. Traditional notions of management are great if you want compliance. But if you want engagement, self-direction works better.
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Ultimately, no one can ever be greater than the quality of his or her thinking.
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In the chapter on the nature of the atonement [in the book saving Calvinism] I argue that it is a mistake to think that penal substitution is the only option on the doctrine of atonement.
