John Gresham Machen Quotes
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Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.
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I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.
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God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.
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No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.
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Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
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My research for 'Adam' affected me profoundly, particularly the research into evil's underbelly. We tend not to think about evil until it pokes its head out of the air about us and then it tends to scare us silly. As well it should.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.
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I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.
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I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
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We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.
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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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If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.
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There are evil people, and I don't even want to hear those guys speak.
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You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.
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The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward.
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All evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.
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I'm not sure ministry can ever have the urgency it requires if it is not aware of evil, both externally and internally.
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Everyone deals with temptation. It's just there.
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When I was at drama school in the U.K., I was there for two and a half years, and we did one week of television and film. It's right before you leave. It's like, 'We've taught you Chekhov and Shakespeare; you are likely to be in a washing-up soap-liquid commercial.'
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I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people. It's strange that the only time the major press talks about them is when someone gets killed or does drugs or something; yet these are the same press people who made heroes out of the Mafia and other crooks, you know.
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Afternoon classes - that evil invention!
