Ebenezer Erskine Quotes
I think, that a man never passes the verge of moral humility, till self-righteousness be dethroned, till the high and towering imaginations of the man's own righteousness by the law be levelled by the mighty weapons of the gospel, and he brought to submit to the righteousness of God for justification, which is, in the gospel revealed 'from faith to faith.'
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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We have lost the idea that something can be secret because it is valuable, not because it's shameful. If you share everything with everybody, what have you got for yourself? I tweet and I blog, but I save a lot for myself. Not because I am ashamed.
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There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life.
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Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot.
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots.
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Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.
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You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
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You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
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If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic.
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Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.
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I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
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I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.
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I think that anybody coming out and saying, 'This is who I am, and let me show it to you...' is good for the world.
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Once I am in the square circle, I am in my home.
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Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.
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Nature is more subtle, more deeply intertwined and more strangely integrated than any of our pictures of her - than any of our errors. It is not merely that our pictures are not full enough; each of our pictures in the end turns out to be so basically mistaken that the marvel is that it worked at all.
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All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.
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Is it possible to live in this world without the operation of will?
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I appreciate my true fans for enjoying me in what I do every day, whether interviews or playing heel. They are smart and nice people.
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There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.
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Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
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I think, that a man never passes the verge of moral humility, till self-righteousness be dethroned, till the high and towering imaginations of the man's own righteousness by the law be levelled by the mighty weapons of the gospel, and he brought to submit to the righteousness of God for justification, which is, in the gospel revealed 'from faith to faith.'
