Jon Acuff famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Sometimes God redeems your story by surrounding you with people who need to hear your past so it doesn't become their future.
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Don't compare your beginning to someone else's middle.
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Pitting your dream against someone else's is a fantastic way to get discouraged and depressed.
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Sometimes when jerks become Christians, it's like a bully learning karate. Instead of having Christ transform our hearts and attitudes, we now have a new method with which to beat you up....what was once just 'forcing everyone to agree with my opinion' is now 'forcing everyone to agree with my opinion in the name of God.
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I want the peace in knowing that is wasn't for lack of hustling that I missed a target for my dream. I want to know that the one thing in my control was under control.
-- Jon Acuff
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A dull speaker, like a plain woman, is credited with all the virtues, for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.
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A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.
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I don't believe in asking God for anything. If I am worthy, He will give it to me. I think we should earn his blessings; I have never believed in mannats.
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posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.
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How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography."
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God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
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I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
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The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.
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Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
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