D. A. Carson Quotes
The important thing, Jesus is saying (in Matthew 5:33-37), is to tell the truth and keep one's pledges without insisting that a certain form of words must be used if it is to be binding. No oath is necessary for the truthful person... Their word is so reliable that nothing more than a statement is needed from them.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness. It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.
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Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.
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The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.
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Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.
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It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.
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The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.
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I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.
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My speech is really important to me, but the thing is at the moment it can't be more important than my singing. Until I'm an established name all over the world, my speech won't be more important than my music.
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Core strength and stability is very important to me. Tennis is all about rotation of the body and my ability to create power. I incorporate a lot of abdominal, back and glute exercises into my gym sessions.
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What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.
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Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
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I think it's important to be diverse, and I hope we continue to see that as a trend in the fashion industry.
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I think it's very important for both women and men to see women working in a variety of capacities.
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In terms of competitiveness of new global environment, Kenya will have absolutely no choice but to tackle the most important constraint to its development: it has been corruption.
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Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.
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It is crucial to be healthy, for pain wipes out the possibility for pleasure, and severe pain removes the possibility of turning to the world outside the body. So we must establish the idea that it is important to look well, not to look young.
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California is a very important state. As goes California, so goes the nation. We need to have strong leadership. Someone who can hit the ground running.
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I don't live for the accolades. I'm more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.
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There are millions of people living Thoreau's life of quiet desperation, and they do not have the language to escape from that desperation.
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The primary object of non-cooperation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.
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A lot of actors never talk to other actors about how they're doing things, or why. I think it's important to share the way you're thinking.
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Compassion is like springwater under the ground. Your life is like a pipe that can tap into that underground spring. When you tap into it, water immediately comes up. So drive your pipe into the ground. Tap into the water of compassion.
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The important thing, Jesus is saying (in Matthew 5:33-37), is to tell the truth and keep one's pledges without insisting that a certain form of words must be used if it is to be binding. No oath is necessary for the truthful person... Their word is so reliable that nothing more than a statement is needed from them.
