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I want people to see an honesty within me. I'm not trying to be the next Sam Cooke or Otis Redding.


Leon Bridges

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JERRY BRIDGES Preach the gospel to yourself every day.
JERRY BRIDGES Holiness has to do with more than mere acts. Our motives must be holy, that is, arising from a desir...
JERRY BRIDGES As we grow in holiness, we grow in hatred of sin; and God, being infinitely holy, has an infinite ha...
JERRY BRIDGES In the arena of adversity, the Scriptures teach us three essential truths about God—truths we must...
JERRY BRIDGES Because God is sovereign, He is able to answer. Because He is faithful to His promises, He will answ...
JERRY BRIDGES We ought to be as earnest and frequent in our prayers of thanksgiving when the cupboard is full as w...
JERRY BRIDGES Worship from the heart in times of adversity implies an attitude of humble acceptance on our part of...
JERRY BRIDGES I guess I'm not like Emily Dickinson who keeps things wrapped up in a ribbon in their top drawer.
JEFF BRIDGES If your boat is in a toilet bowl going down, it may look better then the climb up.
CHUCK BRIDGES Intimacy seems to be one of the major highs of life, whether it's getting to know yourself in a ...
JEFF BRIDGES I will not let thee go. / Had not the great sun seen, I might; / Or were he reckoned slow / To bring...
ROBERT BRIDGES The hill pines were sighing, / O'ercast and chill was the day: / A mist in the valley lying / Blotte...
ROBERT BRIDGES The day begins to droop, - / Its course is done: / But nothing tells the place / Of the setting sun.
ROBERT BRIDGES Whither, O splendid ship, thy white sails crowding, / Leaning across the bosom of the urgent West.
ROBERT BRIDGES There's a lot of room for argument.
ANDREW BRIDGES There are so many things that pop up. If you are paying attention, you can learn every second of the...
JEFF BRIDGES Give love, and love to your life will flow.
MADELINE BRIDGES I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates t...
BEAU BRIDGES Basically, one of the hardest things about being an actor is getting your first break. I'm a pro...
JEFF BRIDGES I am a product of nepotism. I don't think I would have had the profession that I'm in curren...
JEFF BRIDGES I look at the camera as sort of a missing link between motion picture photography and still photogra...
JEFF BRIDGES God does not require a perfect, sinless life to have fellowship with Him, but He does require that w...
JERRY BRIDGES If GOD had a milk carton, would your face be on it?
CHUCK BRIDGES Supporting God's Scriptural ability to give or restrain man's desires, Jerry Bridges points to an am...
JERRY BRIDGES Our duty is found in the revealed will of God in the Scriptures. Our trust must be in the sovereign ...
JERRY BRIDGES That which should distinguish the suffering of believers from unbelievers is the confidence that our...
JERRY BRIDGES ... self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself...
JERRY BRIDGES It's more than six years since my last hat-trick so it was sweet to get another one. I'm getting bac...
MICHAEL BRIDGES Better than brothers. And on my driver's license, my Social Security card, everything. Most people w...
U.Z. BRIDGES There's a direct correlation between faith in the righteousness of Christ and zeal in the cause of C...
JERRY BRIDGES Trust is not a passive state of mind. It is a vigorous act of the soul by which we choose to lay hol...
JERRY BRIDGES Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are...
WILLIAM BRIDGES You prep, you prep, you prep. And on the day that you film, you let all of that go. I try to achieve...
JEFF BRIDGES The parents had a lot of fun, but they were real sore the next morning. They're not used to running ...
CAROLE BRIDGES I saw the opportunity to do something for the entire city, not just a softball program, but also a p...
CAROLE BRIDGES I never missed an opportunity to spread the word, and once they appeared at the field I sold the pro...
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