R. C. Sproul, Jr. Quotes

We do not fear the loss of God's favor, for either we have it not. We cannot lose it. What we fear is the loss of our idols.

R. C. Sproul, Jr.

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• The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'

  

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• I studied Morse code.

  

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• Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end the looming fear caused by explosive remnants of war.

  

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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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• The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.

  

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• What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.

  

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• I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.

  

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• For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.

  

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• My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.

  

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• Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.

  

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• Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years.

  

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• I didn't realise how much I ate Mexican food, like tacos and burritos three times a week, until I came to Europe and couldn't find any.

  

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• AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.

  

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• You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.

  

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• To say grace, knowing that people on this globe are starving, indicates a highly selfish acquiescence in the arrogantly supposed favoritism of the almighty. A really decent god-believer, far from giving thanks for the food and good health and fortune enjoyed by himself and his family and close friends, would surely curse God for his neglect of the hungry, the sick and the tormented, throughout the world.

  

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• We do not fear the loss of God's favor, for either we have it not. We cannot lose it. What we fear is the loss of our idols.

  

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.
  • God
  • Fear
  • Loss