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.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Doing
  • Teach
  • Darkness

• 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.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • God
  • Man
  • Stop

• Gratitude is the law of increase, and complaint is the law of decrease.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Law
  • Gratitude

• 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.

  

  John Travolta
  • People
  • Littles
  • Window

• 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.

  

  Barbara Feldon
  • Words
  • Poetry
  • Needs

• The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • Community
  • Lies
  • Actors

• When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • School
  • Kids
  • Parents

• 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.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Night
  • Situation
  • Cooking

• 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.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Kids

• The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Truth
  • Two
  • Half

• If you are not careful, soon you will have men locking themselves in dungeons so that you can rescue them.

  

  Robin LaFevers
  • Men

• Love makes the Real of desire accessible without its tragic dimension.

  

  Jacques Lacan
  • Real
  • Love
  • Desire

• Every single character in the world, every creature in the world has something to give and something to learn.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • World
  • Character
  • Creature

• He who hath many friends hath none.

  

  Aristotle
  • Friends
  • Many
  • None

• Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker.

  

  Sophocles
  • Silence
  • Advantage
  • Shame

• I am not prone to weeping as our sex commonly are; the want of which vain dew perchance shall dry your pities; but I have that honorable grief lodged here which burns worse than tears drown.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Women
  • Tears
  • Grief

• Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in me. We think we are so individual and so misunderstood when we are young; but the nature our strain of blood carries is inside there, waiting, like our skeleton.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Thinking
  • Waiting
  • Individual

• Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Language
  • Opportunities
  • Mastery

• I constantly write about my safety walking to and from school, and then I would come home at night, and I would cut on the TV, and I would watch a show like 'The Wonder Years,' or I would watch, you know, some other show like 'Family Ties.'

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Family
  • School
  • Home

• I am seeing change at earlier stage start-up companies. For a lot of big companies, the ship has sailed. They are trying to bolt on diversity and inclusion.

  

  Ellen Pao
  • Change
  • Companies
  • Inclusion

• 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.

  

  Arno C. Gaebelein
  • Christ
  • Civilization
  • Evolution