Arno C. Gaebelein Quotes
Christ did not come to civilize. He came to save. Civilization is not the solution; it does not destroy the works of the devil. All civilization aims at world improvement, at the gradual elimination of the curse; it is a process of evolution. It is like a man who is suffering from a terrible disease, and the physician who comes to help him gives him a salve to apply. He treats the skin symptoms but the source of the disease he never considers and never touches. Such is a boasted and progressive civilization. It is a delusion.
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Sanitising stories, leaching out all of the sense of danger and the darkness out of the stories, actually reduces them and stops them from doing what they're supposed to do, which is teach us how to manage our lives.
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This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they'll be peace.
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The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
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Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.
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To be known by God is the highest goal of human existence.
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Gratitude is the law of increase, and complaint is the law of decrease.
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When I was 8, I got a little toy propeller plane: You could turn it on and the people disappeared from the little windows and stewardesses appeared, and it ran along the ground.
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Poetry is very crafted. You can't have too many words. It needs compression. It has to be spare, just the right number of words.
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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.
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It's really quite a situation. It's ridiculous. I make $200,000, $300,000 a night. For years I was working little dives, and if I got $700 a week, I'd say, "Wow, I'm really cooking.
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Let's get a couple of things straight. It hasn't been years and years since I made a movie. I'm not coming back from the dead - I've just had two kids! I have no intention of retiring, but I do think it's impossible to do movie after movie, because there aren't that many good films made.
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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
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If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry will decline, just as a population which does not give birth will eventually dwindle.
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If you are not careful, soon you will have men locking themselves in dungeons so that you can rescue them.
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Love makes the Real of desire accessible without its tragic dimension.
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Every single character in the world, every creature in the world has something to give and something to learn.
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When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.
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I also do not believe that the United States can let itself be driven into a political role by escalating terrorism, and therefore, the leaders of the Arab world and Arafat should do their utmost to put an end to this and then the United States should do its utmost to produce a political solution.
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I think, growing up in a small town - I grew up in a lot of different places. I grew up in a city environment, a more suburban environment, a more rural environment. That's the beauty of New Jersey is you get a lot of different types of living.
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If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
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Christ did not come to civilize. He came to save. Civilization is not the solution; it does not destroy the works of the devil. All civilization aims at world improvement, at the gradual elimination of the curse; it is a process of evolution. It is like a man who is suffering from a terrible disease, and the physician who comes to help him gives him a salve to apply. He treats the skin symptoms but the source of the disease he never considers and never touches. Such is a boasted and progressive civilization. It is a delusion.
