Elias Chacour Quotes
Either we obey God's will who does not kill, or we make our own God's who allow us to make holy wars.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.
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Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.
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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
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Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem – but all in vain until He is born in me.
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For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.
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You might think that in today's world people are unlikely to start worshipping other gods. But sometimes people do worship 'other gods' without realizing it. False 'gods' are nearly always associated with the worship of three things: material possessions, possessive love, or power.
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It is important for us to make a distinction between the spiritual fruit of joy and the cultural concept of happiness. A Christian can have joy in his heart while there is still spiritual depression in his head. The joy that we have sustains us through these dark nights and is not quenched by spiritual depression. The joy of the Christian is one that survives all downturns in life.
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I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship. Instead, I believe in searching for a kind of love that somehow involves all of humanity.
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We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.
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I think I infuse the music with a new passion. Part of this is because I have fallen in love: I am in love with the New York Philharmonic. The chemistry has just been right. Beyond expectation.
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Your future is ahead of you. Imagine the notion of the past fifteen years of your life being a blip in your story.
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What I think is incredible about what Marvel has done and with Jon Favreau I think really maybe helped come up with, is what the template is.
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Sometimes things aren't a dream because you don't really think it's a possibility. So my goal on a daily basis is just to go to work and be someone that people like to be around. I just want to work hard and be nice to people, and I feel like when you touch people in that way, on a more personal level, then they go to work the next day pushing for you. And that's when an opportunity comes that you wouldn't have even expected otherwise.
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Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
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I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else. Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else.
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The cost in human lives of every armed conflict is staggering, but the economic cost of wars can continue for generations.
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We have to ask ourselves, 'Am I really trying to discern God's will, or determine whether I want to do it?'
