D. A. Carson Quotes
You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
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Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
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I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.
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I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.
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The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation.
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I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
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Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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I'm drawn in some strangely natural way to immersing myself in a milieu whose rules I don't understand, where there are things you can't access simply by being intelligent or doing well in school.
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Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
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Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.
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Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.
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I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
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I first went to India because of my interest in yoga, hoping to go to the Iyengar Centre in Pune for a while. That didn't work out, but I ended up on a beach in Goa, writing.
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Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour' and that decreasingly.
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I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.
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He was a decent enough guy, but he was always at his worst when he was trying to be sincere.
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You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.
