J. D. Greear Quotes
What would your prayers look like if you believed that the cross really was the measure of God's compassion for someone?
Quotes to Explore
-
Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives.
-
Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
-
Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.
-
I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
-
No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after.
-
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
-
It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots.
-
I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night.
-
You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
-
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
-
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
-
You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
-
I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
-
We had a saying at Blockbuster: 'If you don't come in on Saturday, don't bother coming in on Sunday.' We worked hard.
-
I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow.
-
After graduating college, I was coming out of a routine I'd been in for several years, all the way back to high school. It was a year-round process of constantly having to work and be disciplined, and I was able to understand and connect the dots between all those characteristics - especially hard work and success.
-
I never pigeonhole myself into any religion, but I feel it has found me. I am trying to make sense of it... the essence of the Mathangi concept.
-
I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.
-
Nothing in our evolutionary history specifically prepared us to live in large societies. Almost everything about the way culture works does.
-
I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone.
-
When I was teaching at an institution that bent over backward for foreign students, I was asked in class one day: "What is your policy toward foreign students?" My reply was: "To me, all students are the same. I treat them all the same and hold them all to the same standards." The next semester there was an organized boycott of my classes by foreign students. When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
-
Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters or Stratford as one of the places. Shakespeare is in one sense present at every moment in every play.
-
What would your prayers look like if you believed that the cross really was the measure of God's compassion for someone?
