But the guarding of our desires is more than fighting a rear-guard defensive action against temptations from the world, the flesh, and the devil. We must take the offensive. Paul directs us to set our hearts on things above, that is, on spiritual values (Colossians 3:1).


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I've worked with a lot of first-time directors who kind of look to me for ideas and opinions and...
JEFF BRIDGES
Gospel music played a huge part of my life. I was too scared to audition for the choir, but through ...
LEON BRIDGES
In my research, I learned that the way these twenties pieces are constructed, in one garment, can be...
MARK BRIDGES
The way it works in our family is, it's the family business. Much like in the Mafia. Every child...
JORDAN BRIDGES
The way it works in our family is, it's the family business. Much like in the Mafia. Every child...
JORDAN BRIDGES
I think I'll always live in Fort Worth. It's great that I can now go anywhere I want to play...
LEON BRIDGES
The other day in the garage, I found a book report from the seventh grade that I did about silent mo...
MARK BRIDGES
Unlike Texas Rangers, we actors don't have a stop date, so I don't know about retiring. Some...
JEFF BRIDGES
Execution is everything.
JEFF BRIDGES
The more space and emptiness you can create in yourself, then you can let the rest of the world come...
JEFF BRIDGES
The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own...
JEFF BRIDGES
Sea Hunt was the first time anyone tackled a show that took place underwater. The stories were sort ...
LLOYD BRIDGES
My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.
JEFF BRIDGES
There are not a lot of junior enlisted Airmen out there getting the chance to operate a weapons syst...
AIRMAN BRIDGES
That movie, 'Airplane!,' what a landmark film it was. It's a great, great movie.
JEFF BRIDGES
With a labyrinth, you make a choice to go in - and once you've chosen, around and around you go....
JEFF BRIDGES
If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of...
WILLIAM BRIDGES
We've got a couple of old heads in Andy Duncan and Mark Peters, but I'm probably the next oldest pla...
DAVID BRIDGES
But when I'm done with the job I can take it off pretty easy, it's like a suit of clothes, put on so...
BEAU BRIDGES
The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels.
JEFF BRIDGES
What are the aspects of yourself that line up with the character? You magnify those, and the ones th...
JEFF BRIDGES
I'm foremost an actor. I feel embarrassed being compared to the guys who really work at it. I fa...
LLOYD BRIDGES
I just find my creativity manifesting a bunch of different ways.
JEFF BRIDGES
Mania is a wonderful feeling.
JEFF BRIDGES
D.A.T.A. stands for desires, abilities, temperament and assets. . . . desires [may] include solving ...
WILLIAM BRIDGES
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
WILLIAM BRIDGES
We come to beginnings only at the end
WILLIAM BRIDGES
For me and my wife, it was love at first sight.
JEFF BRIDGES
Sheldon has a reputation for being such a tough guy on the ice because he is a great defender who pr...
ANGELICA BRIDGES
The world is constantly looking at you as if you're under a microscope. That can put a lot of pressu...
ANGELICA BRIDGES
I've been asked before if my butt was real, and of course it is. I guess it's just so round and perk...
ANGELICA BRIDGES
There are open questions right now and a lively debate about how far restrictions can go in user lic...
ANDREW BRIDGES
Some of those sales may be legal and some not.
ANDREW 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 don't like a lot of attention. That's kind of who I am at heart. So I see everything, the ...
LEON BRIDGES
I'm coming from a Ginuwine and Usher background: slow and smooth songs. And that's why I rea...
LEON 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
If GOD had a milk carton, would your face be on it?
CHUCK 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
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