Eric Butterworth Quotes
Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself - a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.
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Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up.
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
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I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling.
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It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.
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Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
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I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.
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So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
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Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.
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As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.
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God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.
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I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.
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I do not belong to any religion. Everything is between God and myself.
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Numerous have been the manifestations of God's providence in sustaining us. In the gloomy period of adversity, we have had 'our cloud by day and pillar of fire by night.' We have been reduced to distress, and the arm of Omnipotence has raised us up.
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I challenge anyone to tell me there isn't evil in this world.
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George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept.
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I've given a lot of talks over the years on the subject of entrepreneurship. The first thing I find I have to do is to dispel the persistent myth that entrepreneurial success is all about innovative thinking and breakthrough ideas.
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God's not complicated - He's really not. And He helps people in their everyday life so that they can get better in relationships, in their job situations, in getting through grief.
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I only tend to think of the week ahead, to keep my eye on the ball and question whether a full stop is in the right place. It's easy to get distracted by the wrong things. If you start thinking of grand gestures, it's going to be a lot of hot air. You have to be logical. The theatre is a very logical place.
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Yes, flexibility of body and physical perfection for Yogasana is important. However more important is the state of your mind, Meditative mind. Your flexibility might be excellent but if your mind is not attentive, you are merely doing some physical exercise, not Yoga.
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Spite, spite, is the word of your undoing!
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Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total - but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial.
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Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself - a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.
