J. D. Greear Quotes

The goal of the gospel is to produce a type of people consumed with passion for God an love for others.

J. D. Greear

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• I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Change
  • Possible

• I can't wait to get on stage, because there you don't worry about whether you'll ever get married because your life is insane, or whether you'll ever have another boyfriend again, you don't worry about the typical boundaries of how your life has to be.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Life
  • Worry
  • Boyfriend

• I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Money
  • Support

• Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Past
  • Yourself
  • Forgiveness

• Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Architecture
  • Building

• My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Father

• Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Reach
  • Sweetness
  • Peak

• Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Health
  • Serious
  • Gun

• Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Me

• Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.

  

  Dan Gertler
  • Want
  • Dreams
  • Invest

• I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Rock
  • Jesus
  • Roll

• Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Adventure
  • Package

• Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Mean
  • Nose
  • Solar

• My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Job
  • Best
  • Author

• I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.

  

  B. B. King
  • Different
  • Love
  • Like

• If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I don't get hung up on weight.

  

  Jack Black
  • Up
  • Get
  • Weight

• There are charms made only for distant admiration.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Made
  • Admiration
  • Distant

• The redwood is the glory of the Coast Range. It extends along the western slope, in a nearly continuous belt about ten miles wide, from beyond the Oregon boundary to the south of Santa Cruz, a distance of nearly four hundred miles, and in massive, sustained grandeur and closeness of growth surpasses all the other timber woods of the world.

  

  John Muir
  • World
  • Growth
  • Distance

• She could not admit but that he had remarkable qualities, sometimes she thought that there was even in him a strange and unattractive greatness; it was curious then that she could not love him, but loved still a man whose worthlessness was now so clear to her.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Men
  • She
  • Quality

• God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • God
  • Fight
  • Strength

• I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It's not heavy. I don't have skeletons in the closet on their way out.

  

  Drake
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Light

• When all has been considered, it seems to me to be the irresistible intuition that infinite punishment for finite sin would be unjust, and therefore wrong. We feel that even weak and erring Man would shrink from such an act. And we cannot conceive of God as acting on a lower standard of right and wrong.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • God
  • Intuition
  • Punishment

• The goal of the gospel is to produce a type of people consumed with passion for God an love for others.

  

  J. D. Greear
  • People
  • God
  • Passion