John Piper Quotes

The Christian - the biblical - concept of mercy toward wrongdoers only exists in relation to justice. Showing mercy, in relation to wrongdoing, means treating someone better than they deserve.

John Piper

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JusticeBetterChristianSomeone

I'm an entertainer, so in whatever form I entertain... The thing about being a rapper is that you have more control over your form, whereas with acting you have to compromise a lot.

Method Man

ControlCompromiseYouActingMore

Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.

Amy Waldman

MotivationalKnowledgeCommunity

In some countries that are darlings of the West, like Egypt, everyone knows the result of national elections years in advance: The man in power always wins. In others, like Saudi Arabia, the very idea of an election is unthinkable.

Stephen Kinzer

PowerManResultElectionEgypt

Filecoin is a decentralized storage market - think of it like Airbnb for cloud storage - where anybody with extra hard drive space can sell it on the network.

Juan Benet

SpaceDriveThinkCloudHardSell

We collaborate on everything. I'm involved in the writing and pre-production. There's a whole bunch of people who keep in touch at every step about everything.

Jay Roach

StepPeopleWritingTouchEverything

I did my 40 years in Washington, 40-plus, and it's time to pause and reflect and think about what I've seen and done.

Dick Cheney

TimeThinkDoneWashingtonPause

Somebody asked me earlier if I thought it was really important to tell stories about women's struggles. And I said yes, but at the same time, it's also important to tell stories about women's triumphs, women being slackers, women being criminals, women being heroes.

Diablo Cody

WomenTimeMeThoughtImportant

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.

Chuck Palahniuk

BestCompetitionTryDifficultSee

I've been playing squash almost daily for 38 years.

Arlen Specter

DailyYearsPlayingBeenAlmost

When I finish a book, I get extremely restless; I have to aggressively find ways to occupy myself; going off into the woods alone, doing things that are physically or mentally demanding to keep myself busy until the next big idea comes.

Philipp Meyer

AloneMyselfBookWoodsBusyDoing

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

Peter Benchley

LoveTimeDisciplineSolitudeYou

My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming.

Shania Twain

LifeMusicMindMeMy LifeWhatever

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