J. Edwin Orr Quotes
It is utterly impossible to divorce the story of student awakenings from the course of missions in countries overseas. From the beginning, one of the most immediate and dramatic effects of college revivals has been the recruitment of personnel for the work of Christ abroad.
Quotes to Explore
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was that Washington was ultimately able to control his emotions, something Arnold never learned to do.
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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Sadly, for some mothers, this experience can be made so much harder due to challenges with our very mental health.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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I was in high school. A couple of my friends and I decided we had to be in a class together where we could fool around, and drama was it because we'd do improvs, beating each other up. They left a year later, and I stayed in and got a knack for it, and enjoyed the whole process.
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The relationship with time changes when you're captive.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it.
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I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
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If you're not in it you can't win it.
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Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.
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There are a lot of options when it comes between music and acting. For me, because I'm so passionate about my music career, you have to be extremely passionate when you have opportunities like films and real money actually coming to you compared to with music.
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We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized.
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It is utterly impossible to divorce the story of student awakenings from the course of missions in countries overseas. From the beginning, one of the most immediate and dramatic effects of college revivals has been the recruitment of personnel for the work of Christ abroad.
