J. D. Greear Quotes
Gospel change is the Spirit of God using the story of God to make the beauty of God come alive in our hearts
Quotes to Explore
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
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My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scout, and I found I really liked being outdoors.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.
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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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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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I read whatever is put in front of me. I gobble up books.
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Growing up, in my under-15 days I used to be a wicketkeeper, and that carried on till I was 17. Then I started focusing on my batting and moved on. I got into the Ranji team quite early, and generally, as a youngster, the first place you are put in is at bat-pad and short leg, so you had to work on your close-in fielding straightaway.
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On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don't care about looking cool or posing.
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When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need.
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Whoever is gripped by God's spirit turns to his creation with all the interest that comes from God's love.
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Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.
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Gospel change is the Spirit of God using the story of God to make the beauty of God come alive in our hearts
