J. C. Ryle Quotes

Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.

J. C. Ryle

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• Mercy
• Idols
• Manufacturing

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• The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?

  

  Damien Hirst
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• The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.

  

  Aaron Diehl
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• Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels.

  

  Sam Kean
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• Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.

  

  Dana Brunetti
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• I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.

  

  Vera Farmiga
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• When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
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  • Country

• I don't think you should exploit your own pain.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Think
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• Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • People
  • You
  • Happiness

• I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech.

  

  Taylor Spreitler
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• Everything I do now is a first.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • First
  • Everything
  • Now

• I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • World
  • Dream
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• 'The Shining,' 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Halloween.' Those are the greats.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Street
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• I lie, I cheat, and I steal.

  

  Eddie Guerrero
  • Lie
  • Cheat
  • Steal

• Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Science
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• I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Country
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• When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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• Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
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• Well, I Am... I Said was a very difficult song, very difficult because I really had to spend a lot of time thinking about what I was before the song was written.

  

  Neil Diamond
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• Is she crazy, like it says on her bracelet, or is she just looking at my sheets? I dunno!

  

  Dave Attell
  • Crazy
  • Bracelet

• Littlenecks and cherrystones are chewy and sweet on the half shell with mignonette, served raw. But a well-cooked clam is a toothsome, tender thing, full of that magical stuff known as clam liquor.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Sweet
  • Magical
  • Shell

• I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt.... If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Friends
  • True
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• Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Mercy
  • Idols