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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I bring spiritual books with me while travelling. I like books about thoughts and how you see the world.
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The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.
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It drives me crazy to do readings of my books, because if I read anything I've written in the past, I'd like to almost rewrite everything. If I could, I'd completely rewrite Fargo Rock City, and every sentence would be just slightly different. In all likelihood, most of them wouldn't be any better. Some of them would just be changed back to whatever form they used to be, before I second-guessed myself the first time.
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In a sense, 'Twin Peaks' never really went away. They've got a 'Twin Peaks' convention up in Washington every year, and I'm pretty much recognized on a fairly regular basis from 'Twin Peaks,' so I feel like it never really got too far away.
