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"Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object."
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"The difference between christians and non christians is not their sins, but their sens."
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"I take leave to contradict those who say that salvation is an evolution! All that ever can be evolved out of the sinful heart of man is sin-and nothing else! Salvation is the free gift of God, by Jesus Christ, and the work of it is supernatural. It is done by the Lord Himself, and He has power to do it, however weak, no, however dead in sin, the sinner may be!"
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"Tolstoy does not necessarily get rid of his angry temperament by undergoing religious conversion, and indeed it is obvious that the illusion of having been reborn may allow one's native vices to flourish more freely than ever, though perhaps in subtler forms."
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"God is changing the guard indeed in the body of Christ worldwide. This I cannot be quiet about!"
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"A man of God who falls in love with a woman who worships idols will turn him to a zombie."
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"Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it."
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"Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity."
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"Every service is a structure of acts and words through which we rceive a sacrament, or repent, or supplicate, or adore. And it enables us to do these things best--if you like, it 'works' best--when, through long familiarity, we don't have to think about it. As long as you notice, and have to count, the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance."
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"Christianity if false is not important. If Christianity is true however it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important."
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"O Lord, renew my mind."
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"The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego."
Beauty
"Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status."
Money
"The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones."
People
"In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented."
Art
"Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object."
Religion
"Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words."
Time
"It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable."
Cultural
"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book."
Greatness
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