J. I. Packer Quotes
The incarnation is in itself an unfathomable mystery, but it makes sense of everything else that the New Testament contains.
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The most important thing to me with any politician is that they don't start wars, but education is a big part of that, too, because educated people are less likely to do stupid, violent things.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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Music is such a problem in the time it takes.
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In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere.
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I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
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As a company, we have to be very transparent. We are in a business very related to finance, and I want this company to last long, and I want this company to be audited by everyone.
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Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
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When pastors don't have rich spiritual lives with Christ, they become victimized by other models of success - models conveyed to them by their training, by their experience in the church, or just by our culture.
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We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.
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I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.
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Change is never easy.
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When I was doing 'Smile,' I was looking back at pictures of myself and going, 'Thank goodness I couldn't do the sprayed-bangs thing! Everybody's so embarrassed by that hairstyle now, but I was never cool enough to pull it off!'
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I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.
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If police organizations and departments acknowledge that there's a problem and there's an issue, then that, too, is going to contribute to real solutions. And, as I said yesterday, that is what's going to ultimately help make the job of being a cop a lot safer.
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'Clampdown' (1979)
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Tenemos que ser muy conscientes de que debajo de cada enfermedad hay una prohibición. Una prohibición que viene de una superstición.
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When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home.
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I'm one of those writers who can't talk about what they're working on. The entire four years I was writing 'House of Sand and Fog,' my wife never saw a word of it. I just have to keep it in the womb, and then everyone can have a crack at it.
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I was brought up with two sisters, so I do know about a three-way dynamic. It's a complex one, because it's easy for one to get left out and the others to gang up. In my family, we were all pretty up for it, but the dynamics would constantly change.
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We spend so much of our lives not feeling but doing, doing, doing, and movies remind us that we are human. That life is all the things we see, and yet there is beauty there. There's a celebration of life and all of its intricacies. Movies are magnificent.
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There are ways of fighting for your interests. I never do something in business that I wouldn't do in life.
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The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer.
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The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.
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The incarnation is in itself an unfathomable mystery, but it makes sense of everything else that the New Testament contains.
