J. I. Packer Quotes
[N]obody can produce new evidence of your depravity that will make God change his mind. For God justified you with (so to speak) his eyes open. He knew the worst about you at the time when he accepted you for Jesus' sake; and the verdict which he passed then was, and is, final.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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We all should face some failures in life and learn from them. We should accept it and move on.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
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I have to clean my room and unload the dishwasher, wash the pans, and feed the dogs.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,' 'she murmured,' 'he questioned.' It's true that any word repeated too often becomes monotonous, but substitutions for 'said' can be worse than its repetition.
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Tech is all about building human connections.
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I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
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I've got a great eye for color. I'm like a chick.
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I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross.
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You're allowed to work hard and have good things and do good things.
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Learn to let your intuition-gut instinct-tell you when the food, the relationship, the job isn't good for you (and conversely, when what you're doing is just right).
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I think it's important to say that I am genuinely thankful for the time at Bellator.
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There was a time when if you had a financial crisis in Southeast Asia somewhere, it had no impact on our markets. Today it does.
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I hadn't wanted to have a kid until I met my partner.
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[N]obody can produce new evidence of your depravity that will make God change his mind. For God justified you with (so to speak) his eyes open. He knew the worst about you at the time when he accepted you for Jesus' sake; and the verdict which he passed then was, and is, final.
