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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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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Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.
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Men substitute words for reality and then argue about the words.
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Capitalism has been really good to me. I'm very fortunate: I have written books and my books have sold.
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What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?
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We look at the mountain to see the painting, then we look at the painting to see the mountain.
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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.
