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"The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves."
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"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."
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"As we cast our frightened eyes around for something that is real and true and enduring, we are turning once more to this ancient Book [the Bible] that has given consolation, comfort, and salvation to millions in the centuries past."
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"Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into a lucid form and forcing them into the tightfitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear."
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"I was born in the age of "alas"."
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"By the 1960s the United States had a new ruling class-the teenager!"
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"There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory."
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"A great problem in America is that we have an anemic and watered-down Christianity that has produced an anemic, watered-down, and spineless Christian who is not willing to stand up and be counted on every issue."
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"I have yet to meet an English teacher who assigned a book to damage a kid."
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"Ask [God] to help you reflect Christ as you grow older, instead of turning sour or grumpy."
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"The feet of the Christian need to tread the narrow path that the Savior trod, keeping in step with Him."
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"When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas."
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"When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect."
People
"The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves."
Philosophy
"We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity."
Humanity
"The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives."
Survival
"If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem."
Body
"Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading."
Reading
"Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions."
Help
"It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable."
Age
"John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student."
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