Walter J Chantry Quotes
It is not enough to ask yourself, 'Does God's Word permit me to use these good things of the world?' You must also inquire, 'Will it serve the glory of God?'and, 'Will it edify my fellow Christians?'
Quotes to Explore
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Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.
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There should be a minimum on the air pressure but not a maximum. Every game, they're taking air out of the footballs I'm throwing, and I think that's a disadvantage for the way that I like them prepped.
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That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.
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I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having.
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A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.
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I think it's every actor's dream to play a character that's really odd, and you know no one wants to play himself.
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One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.
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I actually don't have a single regret, professionally or domestically. I planned it that way.
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Camel caravans bear witness guns to Caesar. Hordes crawl and seep inside the walls. The streets flow stone. Life goes on absorbing war. Violence kills the temple of no sex.
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I love to run. It's how I clear my head.
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I was very inspired by the videos of the crowds at the Palin rallies.
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Hollywood is the most superficial thing you could possibly be a part of and if I weren't attractive I wouldn't be working at all.
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I'm happy being single but I definitely want someone in my life. I want to eventually get married and have kids.
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It's amazing to me to see how bands evolve and how they take all their influences and come up with their own sound.
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I forgive the tears I was made to shed,
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When I see that there have been 3.6 million examples of road rage in the last year, I say to myself that there must have been 3.6 million examples of bad, inattentive or selfish driving.
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Nature utters her voice in lessons of heavenly wisdom and eternal truth.
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I'm trying to be the coach. My actors are my players. They're doing things that I'm too cowardly to do myself.
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There is no sudden entrance into Heaven. Slow is the ascent by the path of Love.
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'Twin Peaks' without David Lynch is like a dog without a bark.
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I wanted something ephemeral, that would pass like a falling star and, most importantly, that would be impossible for museums to reabsorb. I didn't want it to be 'museumised'. The work had to pass by, make people dream and talk, and that would be all, the next day nothing would be left, everything would go back to the garbage bins.
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I wish I'd known from the beginning that I was born a strong woman. What a difference it would have made! I wish I'd known that I was born a courageous woman; I've spent so much of my life cowering. How many conversations would I not only have started but finished if I had known I possessed a warrior's heart? I wish I'd known that I'd be born to take on the world; I wouldn't have run from it for so long, but run to it with open arms.
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I am no disbeliever in spiritual purpose and no vague believer. I see from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. This means that for me the meaning of life is centered in our Redemption by Christ and what I see in the world I see in relation to that.
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It is not enough to ask yourself, 'Does God's Word permit me to use these good things of the world?' You must also inquire, 'Will it serve the glory of God?'and, 'Will it edify my fellow Christians?'
