Erwin W. Lutzer Quotes
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This gold medal, to me, is a very good outcome from the many years I've spent on my professional career.
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Spiritual formation in a Christian tradition answers a specific human question: 'What kind of person am I going to be?' It is the process of establishing the character of Christ in the person. That's all it is.
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Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
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In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
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Only when he voluntarily chooses that which he inexorably must do, has man any free will at all.
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Shortly, the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves. They'll only be able to parrot the information they've been given on the previous night's news.
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You can go to the moon or walk under the sea, or anything else you like, but painting remains painting because it eludes such investigation. It remains there like a question. And it alone gives the answer.
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I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive.
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I believe the universe presents more options to a more loving mind.
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Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death.
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People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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If behind the erratic gunfire of the press the author felt that there was another kind of criticism, the opinion of people readingfor the love of reading, slowly and unprofessionally, and judging with great sympathy and yet with great severity, might this not improve the quality of his work? And if by our means books were to become stronger, richer, and more varied, that would be an end worth reaching.
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When you play the game for fun, it's fun. When you play it for a living, it's a game of sorrows.
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Have you ever said, 'I can't do that! I'm just not like that!'? If you've ever used this phrase, you've hit the boundary of how you've defined yourself in the past, and it's affecting the quality of your present-day life. Ask yourself, 'Where did these beliefs about who I am come from, and how old are they?' Maybe it's time to update your identity.
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Passion is tragedy-in-waiting
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Because I want to get a lot done, I can sometimes do that in the flesh. If I don't rest in the Lord, and enjoy him as I should, my action doesn't spring from my identity and enjoyment of Christ. When that happens, I end up getting the glory rather than Jesus.
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I experienced firsthand what it means to be poor, what it means to go hungry, and that, I think, may be the reason, the root cause of why I'm able to work so hard, even these days.
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As the pilot of a vessel is tried in the storm; as the wrestler is tried in the ring, the soldier in the battle, and the hero in adversity: so is the Christian tried in temptation.
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I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.
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Milk many cows but make your own butter.
