Jerry Quotes

The Holy Spirit opens the inner recesses of our hearts and enables us to see the moral cesspools hidden there.

Now, science cannot completely exclude the possibility of supernatural explanation. It is possible - though very unlikely - that our whole world is controlled by elves.

I have a friend who likes to date younger women because their stories are shorter. Old men like us, our stories are longer.

Until we make the unconscious conscious, we will be dictated by it and call it fate.

I have a couple of favorite relatives, but because they're so far away I tend to ignore them-even though they have mailboxes, email addresses and telephone numbers. Today, I'll get back in touch.

The city is a plague… and I am the penicillin.

It’s all part of it, man.

To speak of television as 'neutral' and therefore subject to change is as absurd as speaking of the reform of a technology such as guns.

Always remember that your memoir is never about you. It's about your reader. At it's core, it's about that shared space where we all experience the timeless truths of what it means to be human.

Happiness, to me, was no different than Mom's paprikalaced domino bars: something that looked sweet until you took a bite, and then made you want to vomit.

Christianity is not a do-it-yourself thing.

You can’t get much done in life if you only work on days when you feel good.

She grinned, a silty grin. 'You were my two dividends, yes? Don't you forget that.'Then she sighed, took a deep breath, and said, 'But what an investment. My life.

And the trouble with bad times is, you can't sleep through them.

Ambition is the intellectual equivalent of body odour.

My momma always said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but y'all ain't no Chuck Berry.

So distracting, so complete is she that she is gone before many realize that she had no escort, she was along, a parade of one.

So distracting, so complete is she that she is gone before many realize that she had no escort, she was alone, a parade of one.

There is Irish Spring, but there is no fall soap.

It does bear emphasis that slippery-slope arguments are notoriously invalid.

It was like the panting of a thousand puppies.

It is like the panting of a thousand puppies.

Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories.

I'm looking over a four-leaf clover that I overlooked before.

What is it about the sea? Is it because it’s there?

My car broke down. Instead of AAA, I called AA by mistake. They could only move my car twelve steps.

If Heaven and angels exist in a timeless medium we call Forever ("Hey, nobody here but us angels!") ...Then ... ues what? ...There will be no end of me!

In this city, every deserted street corner conceals a crowd. It appears in a minute when something disrupts the way in which the world is supposed to work. It can disappear almost as instantaneously.

We cannot effectively pursue holiness without the Word of God stored up in our minds where it can be used by the Holy Spirit to transform us. Jerry Bridges, The Discipline of Grace, 180

At the same time, we held back. Because she was different. Different. We had no one to compare her to, no one to measure her against.

For the casual viewer, Kurosawa’s films can be an exercise in endurance.

Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

When you're my size in the pros fear is a sign that you're not stupid.

Prisons don't rehabilitate they don't punish they don't protect so what the hell do they do?

I made a mistake today I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's ... very important to ignore the negative.

I was the best man at the wedding. So why is she marrying him?

It's good to play and you must keep in practice.

The number-one fear in life is public speaking and the number-two fear is death. This means that if you go to a funeral you're better off in the casket than giving the eulogy.

I think if I weren't so beautiful maybe I'd have more character.

In a world filled with causes for worry and anxiety ... we need the peace of God standing guard over our hearts and minds.

We're all only fragile threads but what a tapestry we make.

The body manifests what the mind harbors.

You can't pay attention to your mistakes. I made a mistake today I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's ... very important to ignore the negative.

In a world filled with causes for worry and anxiety . . . we need the peace of God standing guard over our hearts and minds.

I used to want to shoot my age. Now I would just like to shoot my temperature.

Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going some place else.

Detroit is just like everywhere else, only more so--a lot more so.

As long as the attitude is to only show the sheet metal, then automobile advertising will continue to be wretched.

I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope.

Humor works, and it's the best way to get attention without spending a lot of money.