Nelson Searcy Quotes
Keeping a new church outwardly focused from the beginning is much easier than trying to refocus an inwardly concerned church.
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Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
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Even Apple, notorious for keeping a tight grip on its products, allows fierce competitors like Google, Amazon, Spotify, and Microsoft to offer their apps on its phones and tablets.
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I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.
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When I was signed, that was before the punk thing even happened.
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It's important that we start conversations about changing the culture of sexual harassment and discrimination in politics, state capitols, and our larger communities with an acknowledgment of the courage of so many women who have chosen to speak up and speak out.
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I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.
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If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it.
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In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.
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I've known attractive airheads, and I've known ugly idiots.
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In general, I think you can watch a movie in two different ways. One is the ethical point of view, one is the point of view of the story.
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I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. 'Lolita' is that book for me. Nabokov's love of wordplay, descriptive detail, artfully complex plots, and his themes of obsession and lost love, are inspiring.
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I see myself more as an action director. All right, I do enjoy intense, bloodthirsty action but I like to blend and cross genres. I don't want to be too predictable.
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Christians often want to hide behind the walls of the church, where we are comfortable, but sometimes we have to come out of the box.
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What an unappealing responsibility that is to lumber any prospective lover with: the need to be a saviour, not simply an equal partner.
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I hate short hair on men - the 'real' man is something I don't know. My dad was always playing with hairbands, making rings, while the women were wearing jeans, white T-shirts and Converse. That was the uniform at home.
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The devastation of the ancient Christian community in Iraq is well known.
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There are three things that I'm addicted to when it comes to entertainment. In no particular order, One, I'm addicted to the cheer moment. 'Librarians' has plenty of them. Next, I feel that life is hard, and I want my entertainment fun, and 'Librarians' is fun as a Christmas party. And third, I like to be moved.
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In 1984, Jim Koch used his family's lager recipe to start Boston Beer Company, which has since become the largest 'craft' brewer in the country. He brews Samuel Adams, a rich lager named after the American revolutionary that comes with the tagline, 'Take pride in your beer.'
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I have faith that God often uses our deepest pain as the launching pad of our greatest calling.
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We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
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It's strange how so much life can be lived without speaking.
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One faith, St. Paul writes (Eph. 4:5). Hold most firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church ... We must hold this for certain, namely: that the faith of the people at the present day is one with the faith of the people in past centuries. Were this not true, then we would be in a different church than they were in and, literally, the Church would not be One.
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Those English and Scottish know how to do accents.
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Keeping a new church outwardly focused from the beginning is much easier than trying to refocus an inwardly concerned church.
