"Pride is self contending with God for preeminence."

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Stephen Charnock

#Pride Quotes #Self Quotes

“Men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the 'culture of waste.' If a computer breaks it is a tragedy, but poverty, the needs and dramas of so many people end up being considered normal. ... When the stock market drops 10 points in some cities, it constitutes a tragedy. Someone who dies is not news, but lowering income by 10 points is a tragedy! In this way people are thrown aside as if they were trash.”
“Previously, on Lock, Stock, I went to bed at two in the morning and woke up at five in the morning, and on this one I was known to nod off on the set occasionally.”
“I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country.”
“Forgiveness is a gift to myself. I forgive, and I set myself free.”
“The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their fangs drawn - they are dangerous because of the way they interpret what's going on.”
“An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.”

Source : "Malcolm McDowell Talks Tom Jones, His Legendary Career And His New Film 'Suing The Devil'". Interview with Scott Neumyer, www.ifc.com.
“I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death.”
“The Church must never be satisfied with the ranks of those whom she has reached at a certain point or say that others are fine as they are: Muslims, Hindus and so forth. The Church can never retreat comfortably to within the limits of her own environment. She is charged with universal solicitude; she must be concerned with and for one and all... We must... as the Lord says - go out ever anew 'to the highways and hedges' (Luke 14:23), to deliver God's invitation to his banquet also to those who have so far heard nothing or have not been stirred within.”

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