J. I. Packer Quotes
How can we turn our knowledge about God into knowledge of God? The rule for doing this is simple but demanding. It is that we turn each Truth that we learn about God into matter for meditation before God, leading to prayer and praise to God.
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Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
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I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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I've found that people feel very free to say insulting things, not about me personally, but about the things I believe. It's sad, because I really could care less where people are coming from, politically, religiously.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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I put the movie days totally behind me... It was a part of my past that I really kind of put in a little drawer and shut the door.
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Non-crazy gun advocates - the ones who aren't stockpiling in preparation for a zombie invasion - don't like the idea of expanding background checks because they think it'll be a lot more paperwork. And it probably would make it more difficult to sell guns at, say, a flea market.
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I was an athlete, so I have kind of an athletic sensibility towards writing. I can work for many long hours without fatiguing.
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It has been religious people, often within the organized church, who have been the most critical of and even hostile to my relationship with God.
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A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.
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How can we turn our knowledge about God into knowledge of God? The rule for doing this is simple but demanding. It is that we turn each Truth that we learn about God into matter for meditation before God, leading to prayer and praise to God.
