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"People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature."
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"I am engaged in spiritual warfare every day. I must never let down my guard-I must keep armed."

"Why is it that the cross has become the symbol of Christianity? It is because at the cross Jesus purchased our redemptionand provided a righteousness which we could not ourselves earn."

"Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil."

"Christianity is not an accretion, it is not something added. It is a new total outlook which is satisfied with nothing less than penetration to the furthest corners of the mind and the understanding."

"We shouldn't think about ourselves and how weak we are. Instead, we should think about God and how strong He is."

"We are never to do anything of which we are not perfectly clear and certain. If you have a doubt about that particular thing that is bothering you, as to whether it is worldly or not, the best policy is “don't do it."

"We constantly pass up the rich and beautiful and ennobling experiences and seek out the tawdry, the cheap, and the degrading. These are the works of the devil, and they flourish on every side!"

"God judges mankind by the standard of the only God-man who ever lived, Jesus Christ. Jesus, the innocent Lamb of God, stands between our sin and the judgment of God the Father."

"Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt."

"In the face of legalized pornography, the conscience of America seems to be paralyzed. More serious than our fakery in art, literature, and pictures is the collapse of our moral standards and the blunting of our capacity as a nation for righteous indignation."
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"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."


"California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that."


"A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life."


"There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war."


"It was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal man didn't have to hoist or jack himself over hindrances by means of cranks, chains and metal parts. Then it was in the line of human advance that Einhorn could do so much."
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