Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes
Prayer in Jesus' name puts the crowning crown on God, because it glorifies Him through the Son and it pledges the Son to give to men 'whatsoever and anything' they shall ask.
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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
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All men would be tyrants if they could.
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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
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You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.
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My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.
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I don't seek the counsel of God. God doesn't speak to me on what I should or shouldn't do.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.
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Men tend to be selfish.
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Certainly it is a blessing to have three beautiful kids who are all healthy. God put them here for me to nurture and bring them up and try to keep as close to right as I can. So it's a blessing. It's a big responsibility, but at the same time it's an honor.
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Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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Women are choosing to stay single rather than marry men who can't step up and provide.
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God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
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The thing that intrigued me about 'Breaking Bad' from day one was the idea of taking a character and transforming him.
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In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don’t.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the rule.
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When I took up running, it was like meeting God himself. I have been running ever since.
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The great characteristic of men of active genius is a sublime self-confidence, springing not from self-conceit, but from an intense identification of the man with his object, which lifts him altogether above the fear of danger and death, which gives to his enterprise a character of insanity to the common eye, and which communicates an almost superhuman audacity to his will.
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Music to me was never something that I could listen to while reading a book. Especially when I was studying music, if I was going to listen to music, I was going to put on the headphones or crank the stereo, and by God, I was going to sit there and just listen to music. I wasn't going to talk on the phone and multitask, which I can't do anyway.
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Prayer in Jesus' name puts the crowning crown on God, because it glorifies Him through the Son and it pledges the Son to give to men 'whatsoever and anything' they shall ask.
