"There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ."

-- Baron de Montesquieu

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“I'd like to do voiceovers my whole life. I get to kind of create a character and go in and play.”
“We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence.”
“Contention in our families drives the Spirit of the Lord away. It also drives many of our family members away. Contention ranges from a hostile spoken word to worldwide conflicts. The scriptures tell us that "Only by pride cometh contention".”
“Politics is show business for ugly people.”
“Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.”

Source : "Black Elk Speaks : being the life story of a holy man of the Ogalala Sioux" by John Neihardt, (Ch. 17), 1961.
“But shall gravity be therefore called an occult cause, and thrown out of philosophy, because the cause of gravity is occult and not yet discovered? Those who affirm this, should be careful not to fall into an absurdity that may overturn the foundations of all philosophy. For causes usually proceed in a continued chain from those that are more compounded to those that are more simple; when we are arrived at the most simple cause we can go no farther ... These most simple causes will you then call occult and reject them? Then you must reject those that immediately depend on them.”
“The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the Holy Ghost.”

Source : Samuel Chadwick (2007). “The Way to Pentecost”, CLC Publications
“I lost my hat while gazing at the moon, and then I lost my mind.”

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