Adam Hamilton Quotes
If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.
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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 is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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I was strong and healthy and I was enjoying what I was doing.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.
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When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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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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There's a kind of optimism specifically within Christianity about the world - about whose side God is on. Well, I didn't have any of that in my background. I had physicality and chaos.
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I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
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I never wanted to be a director. I came into this industry by the little door, so I never learned anything; I never went to school. Actors will tell you I'm very precise. I just have the intuition of doing things.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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At a shoot, I'm really aware of everything. When they do makeup, sometimes I can't see what they're doing, but I can feel it. I know what I look like, even when I can't see what they've done. I know how to compose myself.
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This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
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The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.
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Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one finds it difficult to remember them.
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To me, there's nothing greater than making people laugh.
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It is evident, indeed, that such a doctrine, taken by itself in a literal manner, had no future. The world, in continuing to exist, caused it to crumble. One generation of man at the most was the limit of its endurance. The faith of the first Christian generation is intelligible, but the faith of the second generation is no longer so. After the death of John, or of the last survivor, whoever he might be, of the group which had seen the master, the word of Jesus was convicted of falsehood.
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If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.
