John Hillaby famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Few things are more pleasant than a village graced with a good church, a good priest and a good pub.
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There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore.
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The way a good rod first flexes and then extends its muscles as the line quickens, tightens, rises off the water and does figure eights in mid-air is one of the miracles of humanly applied dynamics.
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Walking is a way of being somewhere, rather than striving to arrive.
-- John Hillaby
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Do you recall the laughter of the Philistines at the helpless Sampson? You can hear the echo of that laughter to-day, as the church, shorn of her strength by her own sin, is an object of ridicule to the world, who cry in derision, "Where is your boasted triumph and your Millennial glory?
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Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of human life.
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I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.
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The church is not the way to heaven; the church is the sign that points to heaven.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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Our job is to show how it is possible to take an illiterate woman and make her into an engineer in six months and show that she can solar-electrify a village
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Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.
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If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
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To some people heavy metal is Motorhead and to others it's Judas Priest
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Back in 1994 there was no Judas Priest.
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