D.A.T.A. stands for desires, abilities, temperament and assets. . . . desires [may] include solving problems, performing intellectually challenging work in an independent setting and making things run well . . . abilities [are] the transferable skills. . . . to solve people's problems. These may include writing, budgeting and using different software programs . . . temperament [may refer to] what situations [make you] most productive and satisfied . . . assets are the life experiences, education and training that set [one] apart from everyone else.


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I’ve asked people why they think God would probably not use them to share the gospel with someone ...
JERRY BRIDGES
The point of this good-day-bad-day comparison is this: Regardless of our performance, we are always ...
JERRY BRIDGES
The pursuit of holiness requires sustained and vigorous effort. It allows for no indolence, no letha...
JERRY BRIDGES
If we are going to persevere as committed disciples of Jesus Christ over the course of our lives, we...
JERRY BRIDGES
Faith itself has no merit; in fact, by its nature it is self-emptying. It involves our complete renu...
JERRY BRIDGES
Nothing cuts the nerve of the desire to pursue holiness as much as a sense of guilt. On the contrary...
JERRY BRIDGES
In times of adversity Satan will seek to plant the thought in our minds that God is angry with us an...
JERRY BRIDGES
All pain we experience is intended to move us closer to the goal of being holy as He is holy.
JERRY BRIDGES
Sometimes the end God has in mind is to exercise our faith, so He brings us into straitened circumst...
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 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
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
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...
CAROLE BRIDGES
The Talmud states, "Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly now, love merc...
BRIDGES MCCALL
Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, m...
JEFF BRIDGES
Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping righ...
JEFF BRIDGES