John Nelson Darby Quotes
Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.
Quotes to Explore
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My family background was deeply Christian.
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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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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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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.
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It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.
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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.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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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.
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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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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.
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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'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.
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I went to a Christian school, and as a kid, we weren't allowed to really watch anything violent, even 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.'
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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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Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself.
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If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
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God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.
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From America's schools, religion has been relentlessly purged. No prayers, no Bibles, no Christian symbols, no Ten Commandments.
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If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.
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Servile, and base, and mercenary, is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Christians. They give no more than they dare not with-hold; they abstain from nothing but what they must not practise.
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For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
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This season is a lot funnier, not as dark, mainly because, well, she has accepted the fact that she is dead. She knows she cannot go back to where she was when she was alive.
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Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.
