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"Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it."
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"I am not what you are. I am only what I can see. I am me."

"Your eyes have no power to see. They only create optical illusions. Only the mind can see it when it is ready to see it."

"Lack of money is no poverty."

"Ancient historians tell us that one of the symptoms of a declining civilization is a desexualization of the human race, with men becoming more effeminate and women becoming more masculine, not only in physical [appearance] but in their basic characters."

"Parenting is the most important responsibility most of us will ever face, and none of us does it perfectly."

"To injure, ignore, disrespect, and violate the innocence of a child are among the greatest evils known to man."

"I don't care if you love me or not, but I care that I love you without any thought."

"The evangelist cannot bring conviction of sin, righteousness, or judgment; that is the Spirit's work. They cannot convert anyone; that is the Spirit's work."

"Christianity is not a spectator sport, it's something in which we become totally involved."

"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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"The bird which has no knowledge of pure water, has his beak in salt water all year round."


"From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths " outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone."


"There is something in man which can detect real love. We rub it out, or muffle it, by substitute-love."


"You must improve yourself on a higher level if you are to be able to help people, and not just weep over them."
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