J. I. Packer Quotes
The saving power of the cross does not depend on faith being addded to it; its saving power is such that faith flows from it
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.
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I'm very English. I'm white. I mean, I'm so pale. With spray tans they start peeling and start getting really dirty looking.
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One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.
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For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.
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What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.
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In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.
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I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
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It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
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Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
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If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?
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I have my outlet for my humor through my characters, and I also have the intimacy of rapport with my fans that allows me to explain my philosophy and spirituality.
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I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.
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Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.
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For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.
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I used to wear boxers and a tank top, but now I sleep in the nude. It's kind of weird, because I used to have to wear something to bed, whether it was a tank top or whatever. And now if I have any clothes at all on, it's really hard to get to sleep.
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Most music careers slowly but surely go down.
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I know I'm going to be remembered for football. That's why I work so hard at it.
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Being a new band, I just can't think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock crowd than playing with twenty of the biggest Hard-Rock bands in the world.
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Even the pallid daughters of Albion forget for a moment their Pre-Raphaelite poses by burying themselves in the sonorous sortilege of the Antilles.
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The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.
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I don't think I'm a good dancer.
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The saving power of the cross does not depend on faith being addded to it; its saving power is such that faith flows from it
