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I often forget that other people's stories aren't simply introductions to my own more engaging, more dramatic, more relevant, and better-told tales, but rather ends in themselves, tales I can learn from or repeat or dissect or savor Picture Quote #1

For God's sake (I never was more serious), don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print Picture Quote #1

My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host Picture Quote #1

Milton's terrible sentence applies to our day as accurately as it did to his:

Please to blot out gentle hearted, and substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-ey'd, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the Gentleman in question Picture Quote #1

How tragic that we in this dark day have had our seeking done for us by our teachers. Everything is made to center upon the initial act of

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I'm talking about those novels where the characters aren't really interesting and you don't care about them or anything they care about. It's those books I won't read anymore. There's too much else to read - books about people and things that matter, books about life and death Picture Quote #1

Among the famous sayings of the Church fathers none is better known than Augustine's,

It's not hard to read about death abstractly. I do find it tough when a character I love dies, of course. You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them Picture Quote #1

Kerouac and I are not real at all. The only thing about a writer is that he has written, and not his so-called life. 'and we (will) all die and the stars will go out, one after another. ' Picture Quote #1

For it is not mere words that nourish the soul, but God Himself, and unless and until the hearers find God in personal experience they are not the better for having heard the truth. The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His Presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts Picture Quote #1

Social religion is perfected when private religion is purified. The body becomes stronger as its members become healthier. The whole Church of God gains when the members that compose it begin to seek a better and a higher life Picture Quote #1

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I am determined my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is Picture Quote #1

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination Picture Quote #1

Christ, and after that everything is “automatic. ” This is because of our failure to lay a scriptural emphasis in our evangelical preaching. In our eagerness to make converts, we allow our believers to absorb the idea that they can deal with their Picture Quote #1

Of all, we have made the Word of Truth conform to our experience and accepted this low plane as the very pasture of the blessed. It will require a determined heart and more than a little courage to wrench ourselves loose from the grip of our times and return to Biblical ways. But it can be done. Every now and then in the past Christians have had to do it. History has recorded several large-scale returns led by such men as St. Francis, Martin Luther and George Fox. Unfortunately there Picture Quote #1

The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window Picture Quote #1

There is today no lack of Bible teachers to set forth correctly the principles of the doctrines of Christ, but too many of these seem satisfied to teach the fundamentals of the faith year after year, strangely unaware that there is in their ministry no manifest Presence, nor anything unusual in their personal lives Picture Quote #1

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Christianity has been watered down until the solution is so weak that if it were poison it would not hurt anyone, and if it were medicine it would not cure anyone Picture Quote #1

No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of sausages and spring water Picture Quote #1

The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling-a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy; yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy Picture Quote #1

They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work Picture Quote #1

God Himself is here waiting our response to His Presence. This eternal world will come alive to us the moment we begin to reckon upon its reality Picture Quote #1

It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it Picture Quote #1

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Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door Picture Quote #1

If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido Picture Quote #1

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable Picture Quote #1

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter Picture Quote #1

As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle Picture Quote #1

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment Picture Quote #1

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I often forget that other people's stories aren't simply introductions to my own more engaging, more dramatic, more relevant, and better-told tales, but rather ends in themselves, tales I can learn from or repeat or dissect or savor (Ter Quotes) For God's sake (I never was more serious), don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print (Ter Quotes) My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host (Ter Quotes) Milton's terrible sentence applies to our day as accurately as it did to his: "The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed." (Ter Quotes) Please to blot out gentle hearted, and substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-ey'd, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the Gentleman in question (Ter Quotes) How tragic that we in this dark day have had our seeking done for us by our teachers. Everything is made to center upon the initial act of "accepting" Christ (a term, incidentally, which is not found in the Bible) and we are not expected thereafter to crave any further revelation of God to our souls (Ter Quotes) I'm talking about those novels where the characters aren't really interesting and you don't care about them or anything they care about. It's those books I won't read anymore. There's too much else to read - books about people and things that matter, books about life and death (Ter Quotes) Among the famous sayings of the Church fathers none is better known than Augustine's, "Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee." (Ter Quotes) It's not hard to read about death abstractly. I do find it tough when a character I love dies, of course. You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them (Ter Quotes) Kerouac and I are not real at all. The only thing about a writer is that he has written, and not his so-called life. 'and we (will) all die and the stars will go out, one after another. ' (Ter Quotes) For it is not mere words that nourish the soul, but God Himself, and unless and until the hearers find God in personal experience they are not the better for having heard the truth. The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His Presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts (Ter Quotes) Social religion is perfected when private religion is purified. The body becomes stronger as its members become healthier. The whole Church of God gains when the members that compose it begin to seek a better and a higher life (Ter Quotes) I am determined my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is (Ter Quotes) Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination (Ter Quotes) Christ, and after that everything is “automatic. ” This is because of our failure to lay a scriptural emphasis in our evangelical preaching. In our eagerness to make converts, we allow our believers to absorb the idea that they can deal with their (Ter Quotes) Of all, we have made the Word of Truth conform to our experience and accepted this low plane as the very pasture of the blessed. It will require a determined heart and more than a little courage to wrench ourselves loose from the grip of our times and return to Biblical ways. But it can be done. Every now and then in the past Christians have had to do it. History has recorded several large-scale returns led by such men as St. Francis, Martin Luther and George Fox. Unfortunately there (Ter Quotes) The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window (Ter Quotes) There is today no lack of Bible teachers to set forth correctly the principles of the doctrines of Christ, but too many of these seem satisfied to teach the fundamentals of the faith year after year, strangely unaware that there is in their ministry no manifest Presence, nor anything unusual in their personal lives (Ter Quotes) Christianity has been watered down until the solution is so weak that if it were poison it would not hurt anyone, and if it were medicine it would not cure anyone (Ter Quotes) No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of sausages and spring water (Ter Quotes) The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling-a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy; yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy (Ter Quotes) They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work (Ter Quotes) God Himself is here waiting our response to His Presence. This eternal world will come alive to us the moment we begin to reckon upon its reality (Ter Quotes) It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it (Ter Quotes) Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door (Ter Quotes) If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido (Ter Quotes) All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable (Ter Quotes) I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter (Ter Quotes) As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle (Ter Quotes) I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment (Ter Quotes)

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