R. Kent Hughes Quotes
The key to ongoing effectiveness [in evangelism] is a perpetual freshness in your growing knowledge of Him.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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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.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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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.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
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The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!
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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.
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I think that the future of currency is digital, and Bitcoin has a good shot at being the currency of the future.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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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.
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There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.
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When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started to write my own books. I never thought of myself as wanting to be a writer - I just was one.
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I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing.
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To see the universal and all – pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.
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I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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I was a huge Lauryn Hill fan; that was all my mom would listen to in the car.
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The key to ongoing effectiveness [in evangelism] is a perpetual freshness in your growing knowledge of Him.
