J. I. Packer Quotes
Holy people glory, not in their holiness, but in Christ's cross; for the holiest saint is never more than a justified sinner and never sees himself in any other way.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.
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I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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I've never been a six-foot-tall, skinny model, so therefore, I want to create an illusion. People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.
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Any faith of more than 1.6 billion people is going to have some of them who falsely justify actions on that faith.
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I think that you can love people without it being the great love.
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For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came to Seattle, and worked as a houseboy just one mile from the Washington State governor's mansion that I was privileged to inhabit for eight years.
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We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don't deserve to be called traitors.
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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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Several years ago, when I was about to start a novel, I thought I might get some mileage out of the idea of a civilization in which people somehow felt - that is, they shared - all the pain and all the pleasure they caused one another.
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In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to live up to their pride and to try to become someone.
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In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.
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I think the rigors of a TV schedule are brutal and 'Six Feet Under' wasn't a network schedule. We did 13 shows, we didn't do 22. I don't know how people do that. I really don't. I mean the shows are shorter, but wow, it's quite a discipline.
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I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.
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One of the most common reasons people renovate their homes is a change in their lifestyle - an upcoming wedding, a new baby, or grown children moving away.
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I admire many people, but I am not sure that I have any 'heroes.'
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I'm not very good at picking stuff up off the radio. It takes me way too long to learn other people's music.
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A lot of people might define a life well lived by how much is in the bank. I feel like it's how much you laugh.
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Even the best scientists are often insecure and feel the need for recognition.
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Without getting into specifics, I assure you we are looking at very substantial opportunities for Loon - Google-scale opportunities.
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I tend to write songs that are about something pretty specific. A lot of them tell some kind of little made-up story.
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I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything further for himself.
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Holy people glory, not in their holiness, but in Christ's cross; for the holiest saint is never more than a justified sinner and never sees himself in any other way.
