Erwin W. Lutzer Quotes
God has a program of character development for each of us. He wants others to look at our lives and say, He walks with God, for he lives like Christ.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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Young people really want you to give them a road map, and they will follow it to a tee. If you tell them, 'These are the eight steps you have to take to be successful,' they will do all eight very earnestly.
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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.
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I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.
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I don't plot with huge detail, just big moments and important elements, and then I have a structure but can fly by the seat of my pants when I write.
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A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.
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It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?
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'South Pacific' - I really learned a lot. I swear I like to say that during 'South Pacific,' I went from being a girl to being a woman.
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I need to be able to be at a gig and just put my bag on the floor and not worry about it being stood on or getting ruined. You want a bag that can go through anything. And a little bit of softness is always lovely. If I don't have a dog, I can just pet my bag!
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There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.
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'I’ll tell you,' she said softly. 'But you won’t like it.'He looked away from her. 'I asked for the truth. Whether I like it or not, I have to know.'
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Wo Politik ist oder Oekonomie, da ist keine Moral.
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China might seem quite successful in its controls, but it has only raised the water level. It’s like building a dam: it thinks there is more water so it will build higher. But every drop of water is still in there. It doesn’t understand how to let the pressure out. It builds up a way to maintain control and push the problem to the next generation.
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I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.
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When I have difficulties, I will not complain.
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People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
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I knew there were going to be boos if the Knicks drafted me. That's how New York fans are.
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Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.
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God has a program of character development for each of us. He wants others to look at our lives and say, He walks with God, for he lives like Christ.
