William Orlando Darby Quotes
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God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.
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It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a scene and think to yourself, 'Oh, God. I was so deep in that moment,' and find it just didn't play. I don't know if I have very good radar about that or not.
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Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.
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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
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God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter.
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If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
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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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Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
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Libraries can take the place of God.
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I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.
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Was there ever a nation on God's fair earth civilized from the bottom upward? Never; it is, ever was, and ever will be from the top downward that culture filters. The Talented Tenth rises and pulls all that are worth the saving up to their vantage ground.
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You're in a scene with Laura Linney or Oliver Platt or John Hickey or Alan Alda and these amazing actors and actresses, and you're like, 'Oh my God, I haven't even started; I'm nothing compared to these people!'
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There's absolutely nothing that the God I believe in cannot do.
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To me the earth's most explosive and pernicious evil is racism, the inability of God's creatures to live as One, especially in the Western world.
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Lovers of God do not belong to any caste. … A brāhmin without this love is no longer a brāhmin. And a pariah with the love of God is no longer a pariah. Through bhakti an untouchable becomes pure and elevated.
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We ought to change the legend on our money from "In God We Trust" to "In Money We Trust." Because, as a nation, we've got far more faith in money these days than we do in God.
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What a Beethoven, Shakespeare or Picasso has done is not create something, so much as they have accessed that place within themselves from which they could express that which has been created by God.
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Love the life you have while you create the life of your dreams. Don't think you have to wait for the latter to do the former.
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The central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive.
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Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.
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Onward we stagger, and if the tanks come, may God help the tanks.
