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"The cruelty itself is motivated by something deeper: the wish to know the secret of things and of life."
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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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"Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self."
"If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism."
"We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake."
"To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime."
"Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction."
"To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable."
"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality."
"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"
"The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity."
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