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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You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'
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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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God forbid that women have fantasies.
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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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Leon Uris is a storyteller, in a direct line from those men who sat around fires in the days before history and made the tribe more human.
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It was my responsibility that this world got itself an atom bomb, because there were only a handful of nuclear physicists in the thirties - only a handful. And we were all beating the desk and saying 'How wonderful it will be if we discover atomic fission.'
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I tend to go to the piano more because it is a very sexual instrument that reveals more sides of myself, but sometimes guitar for a certain song is the only instrument I could imagine using. Piano is very comforting to me, I’m never annoyed by it.
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I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.
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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.
