Kevin DeYoung Quotes
Churches that should be talking about the work of Christ on the cross and the grace of God for sinners are stuck on recycled pop psychology, moral exhortation, or entertainment. But these fail to speak to the eternal question that haunts all of us: 'How do I know that I'm OK?' We all want to know we are justified.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I bring spiritual books with me while travelling. I like books about thoughts and how you see the world.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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I already have a lot of experience, but the best is yet to come.
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
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Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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You win as a team, you lose as a team, you also do so many things together.
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Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
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The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.
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I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.
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I will always remember the fear in the faces of the executed. That's the first day I felt the devil's presence.
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Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.
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A lot of our Democratic consultants have fallen into the self-defeating prescription that the candidate that runs the most negative ads wins. I have a new theory: Positive is the new negative.
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At the end of the day, it's all one version of telling a story. I treated this as if it was a two million dollar independent film. I did a lot more physical work than I'd probably have to do for a two million dollar independent film with four months of training and stuff. But as far as the character's psychology or emotional life goes, I treat it just the same.
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Churches that should be talking about the work of Christ on the cross and the grace of God for sinners are stuck on recycled pop psychology, moral exhortation, or entertainment. But these fail to speak to the eternal question that haunts all of us: 'How do I know that I'm OK?' We all want to know we are justified.
