R. Kent Hughes Quotes

The key to ongoing effectiveness [in evangelism] is a perpetual freshness in your growing knowledge of Him.

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• Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Animal
  • Coffee

• One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Time
  • Want
  • Humanity

• I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Better
  • Outside
  • Outsider

• If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Patience
  • Grow
  • Beard

• Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Service
  • Intelligent
  • Choice

• A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Good
  • Composer
  • Imitate

• Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Important
  • History
  • Tool

• The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • You
  • Cold
  • Mud

• There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Better
  • Unique
  • Cold

• I think that the future of currency is digital, and Bitcoin has a good shot at being the currency of the future.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Good
  • Think
  • Future

• Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Different
  • Spiritual
  • Emotional

• One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Always
  • Hard
  • Underestimate

• Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Together
  • Faith

• There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Crazy
  • Sad
  • Angry

• When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Different
  • Dance
  • Audience

• It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Artist

• I feel like a survivor from an age that people no longer understand. I want to try to explain what the 1930s - the golden age of Hollywood - was truly like. People forget that America was such a different place then, not yet the dominant force in the world.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• The American people are much more practical than Republican lawmakers on equal pay, on the minimum wage, on same-sex marriage, and on basic civil rights.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • People
  • American
  • Marriage

• I've never boxed in my life, never been in a military base in my life, never grew up with anyone in the military.

  

  Tyrese Gibson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Military

• I trained myself to not get my hopes up, because there were so many times in the room where you'd be like, 'This feels amazing, this is a hit!' And it never saw the light of day.

  

  Nick Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Up
  • Light
  • Amazing

• Like all Americans, Arkansans hurt for the Syrian refugees. The hardships they face are beyond most of our understanding, and my thoughts and prayers are with them, but I will not support a policy that poses real risk to Americans.

  

  Asa Hutchinson
  • Real
  • Support
  • Understanding

• The key to ongoing effectiveness [in evangelism] is a perpetual freshness in your growing knowledge of Him.

  

  R. Kent Hughes
  • Knowledge
  • Growing
  • Keys