Erwin W. Lutzer Quotes
The man who commits immorality does so because he thinks it will maximize pleasure if he can minimize the pain by keeping it secret.
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.
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Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
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My purpose is far greater than my pain.
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Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.
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I feel blessed that I haven't seen or felt real pain to be immune to it. But I am dreading the time it comes. I feel blessed to have everything going fine. My parents' health is good, my brothers are well-settled, I have a great brother-in-law and my own career is doing fine. I hope and pray that I am fit and fine always.
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I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse.
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There can be raw pain and bleeding where so many thousands see the inevitable ups and downs of only a game.
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Many climate change deniers would have you believe that addressing climate change is all pain and no gain. This is simply not true. We can tackle this challenge while improving our personal health and the health of our economy. These are not competing interests; they go hand in hand.
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Adrenaline is wonderful. It covers pain. It covers dementia. It covers everything.
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Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.
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There's a little bit of pain in every transition, but we can't let that stop us from making it. If we did, we'd never make any progress at all.
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Some people are born gardeners, some are politicians. I was an actor. It took a great deal of pain before I figured that out. I didn't relate to most of it.
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I look at something like 'Short Term 12,' and that character has a lot of pain, and I wouldn't have known how to portray that if I hadn't experienced pain myself.
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I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they would inflict on others to carry out those purposes. Because the purposes were so good, they would justify this pain we were inflicting on other people.
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To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.
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I've always been a bit of a daredevil, even as a little girl with a pretty high pain tolerance and things like that.
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This is one of the most highly secret matters there are, perhaps the most secret. Anybody who speaks about it is shot dead immediately. Two talkative people died yesterday.
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I got quite good results from protein plates.
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When the flower opens, the bees will come.
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It’s always hard to remember love – years pass and you say to yourself, Was I really in love, or was I just kidding myself?
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The man who commits immorality does so because he thinks it will maximize pleasure if he can minimize the pain by keeping it secret.
