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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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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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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My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'
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To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is more than love and hate.
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I don't think I'm the world's most die-hard sci-fi fan, but I definitely grew up watching 'Star Trek' religiously - all of them: the original, 'Next Generation,' 'Deep Space Nine,' 'Voyager.' I think sci-fi has an important place in the cinema world. Fantasy is a big part of why films actually exist.
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The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
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Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change.
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You have to really work with someone who you think is going to be a collaborator, who you think understands what you want to do with this movie and how you want to do it.
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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.
