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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Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of God. In general, only individuals of exceptional endowments, and exceptionally high-minded communities, rise to any considerable extent above this level. But there is a third stage of religious experience which belongs to all of them, even though it is rarely found in a pure form: I shall call it cosmic religious feeling. It is very difficult to elucidate this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding to it.
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People plan, God laughs.
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When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful.
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A woman doesn't find it contradictory to complain about not having anything to wear and about not having enough closet space in the same conversation. You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.
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If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.
