John Nelson Darby Quotes

Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.

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• My family background was deeply Christian.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • Family
  • Christian

• Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • World
  • Good
  • Evil

• At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.

  

  Randall Terry
  • God
  • Law
  • Christian

• All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • World
  • History
  • Christian

• Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Bad
  • Think

• Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.

  

  Gary North
  • Long
  • Action
  • Christian

• I think the paparazzi is a necessary evil... and if ya don't like it, and ya don't want to do this, go to Iowa and do some community theatre. It's all about self-promotion, and it's not always the fun part of it.

  

  Gail O'Grady
  • Fun
  • Community
  • Evil

• The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • World
  • Best
  • Evil

• I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Small
  • Day

• 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.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Think
  • Evil
  • Choose

• Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Evil
  • Powerful
  • Organization

• From America's schools, religion has been relentlessly purged. No prayers, no Bibles, no Christian symbols, no Ten Commandments.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • America
  • Christian
  • Religion

• If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • God
  • Evil
  • Doing

• 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.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Good
  • God
  • Mind

• I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Christian
  • Just
  • Argument

• At the end of the day, I'm not some evil guy.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • Guy
  • Day
  • Evil

• Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • America
  • Christian
  • Years

• I am Plato's Republic. Mr. Simmons is Marcus. I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book, Gulliver's Travels! And this other fellow is Charles Darwin, and-this one is Schopenhauer, and this one is Einstein, and this one here at my elbow is Mr. Albert Schweitzer, a very kind philosopher indeed. Here we all are, Montag. Aristophanes and Mahatma Gandhi and Gautama Buddha and Confucius and Thomas Love Peacock and Thomas Jefferson and Mr. Lincoln, if you please. We are also Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Book
  • Political
  • Kind

• The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence.

  

  Meir Kahane
  • Life

• All of a sudden, making a Spanish-American War joke. I think you sort of had to go to probably to an American high school to have remembered that.

  

  David Mandel
  • School
  • American
  • Remembered

• When readers don't like the book, it's usually because they feel that romantic love is pass or somehow needs more irony.

  

  Charles Baxter
  • Book
  • Feels
  • Needs

• That's a sound design thing but then we wanted to do music that would not disturb it and at the same time drive it.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Time
  • Music
  • Design

• Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.

  

  John Nelson Darby
  • Evil
  • Christian