J. I. Packer Quotes
Have you been holding back from a risky, costly course to which you know in your heart God has called you? Hold back no longer. Your God is faithful to you, and adequate for you. You will never need more than He can supply, and what He supplies, both materially and spiritually, will always be enough for the present.
Quotes to Explore
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots.
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I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
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After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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Women's tennis has been around for a very long time - we're talking about the 1800s. But women's soccer hasn't had such a long history, so now they're right at the beginning of really trying to make things equal. We need to continue not only to advocate for women but to have men advocating for women.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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I have done a terrible thing, I have postulated a particle that cannot be detected.
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Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.
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after watching a spitting cobra spit at Steve Irwin
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Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.
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How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Have you been holding back from a risky, costly course to which you know in your heart God has called you? Hold back no longer. Your God is faithful to you, and adequate for you. You will never need more than He can supply, and what He supplies, both materially and spiritually, will always be enough for the present.
