J. I. Packer Quotes
If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it's bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and conceited.
Quotes to Explore
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The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
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I had been playing really interesting roles before I got great roles. Little ones - 'The Crying Game' I loved working on, and then 'Bird,' 'Ghost Dog,' so many films.
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.
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That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.
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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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I decided I was going to be an artist who wrote my own songs, and turned down the publishing deal. That meant that the first few years here were really tough financially. I didn't know if I was going to have gas to get home sometimes or could put gas in the car.
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McCain I'd vote against under any circumstance.
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I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to perk me up. The audience picks me up enough. That's the total God's truth.
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I like to post positive content, and I like to try and make people smile. That's why those videos are popular. I don't fake it.
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I grew up in New York City. In elementary school, I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Club, and in high school, my poems were published in an anthology of student poetry.
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Even if you live in a tiny village, there's an Internet site. It's quite easy to find clothes, but sometimes women don't know how to mix them.
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I write 1,000-1,500 words. The next day, I rewrite it and add 1,000-1,500 words to the end of it.
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I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.
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I auditioned for the role of an angel in the Nativity play at school. I didn't get it. I auditioned for Mary; didn't get it. So I made up the character of the sheep who sat next to Baby Jesus.
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So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
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How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?
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I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.
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I know what kind of people would have the hottest corner in my conception of hell. It would be those who have helped to give goodness a bad name.
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If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it's bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and conceited.
