J. I. Packer Quotes
We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the church, but by how we pray and what goes on in our hearts. Many of us, I suspect, have no idea how impoverished we are at this level. Let us ask the Lord to show us.J. I. Packer
Quotes to Explore
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
A. E. van Vogt -
I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
Laura Benanti -
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.
Quico Canseco -
When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.
Iggy Pop -
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.
Foster Friess -
Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
Salman Rushdie
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Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.
Ed Weeks -
I get notes posted on my windscreen wipers and through my letterbox.
Zoe Sugg -
The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
Ban Ki-moon -
I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
Young Thug -
I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be anywhere. I'm not kidding.
Larry Hagman -
Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
D. H. Lawrence
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Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.
Samantha Stosur -
Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.
Eberhard Arnold -
When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain, I thought they had a speech impediment!
Viggo Mortensen -
I follow so many beauty bloggers on Instagram.
Kat Graham -
I was never the girl in high school who had a boyfriend for years. My longest relationship has been 18 months. I've thought maybe I'm really superficial and unable to have a relationship. What I've found is that people are attracted by my independence, and then they try to squelch it.
Pam Dawber -
I adored my father.
Nancy Wake
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Hope gives us something to do when we are afraid of what might happen.
Karan Casey -
I had a mouse in my apartment and I couldn't sleep for two nights. I hate mice. They move so fast.
Matt Czuchry -
What’s wrong with being naked?
Zeena Schreck -
The brain is only three pounds of blood, dream, and electricity, and yet from that mortal stew come Beethoven's sonatas. Dizzie Gillespie's jazz. Audrey Hepburn's wish to spend the last month of her life in Somalia, saving children.
Diane Ackerman -
We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the church, but by how we pray and what goes on in our hearts. Many of us, I suspect, have no idea how impoverished we are at this level. Let us ask the Lord to show us.
J. I. Packer