Walter Ralston Martin > Quotes

“Truth by definition is exclusive. If truth were all-inclusive, nothing would be false.”
― Walter Martin, The Kingdom of the Cults

“A poet’s freedom lies precisely in the impossibility of worldly success. It is the freedom of one who knows he will never be anything but a failure in the world’s estimation, and may do as he pleases. The poet is a man on the sidelines of life, sidelined for life. He belongs to the aristocracy of the outcast, the lowest of the low, below the salt of the earth. A member of the most ancient regime in the world. One that cannot, it seems, be overthrown.”
― Walter Martin, Complete Poems: Charles Baudelaire

“Why did Baudelaire — why does anyone — write poetry, in the teeth of all the evidence that one wants you to do so? No one wants you to write it and having written it in spite of them, no one wants to read it. Above all, no one wants to pay for it. For better or worse, a poem has a hard time turning into a commodity.”
― Walter Martin, Complete Poems: Charles Baudelaire

“Within the theological structure of the cults there is considerable truth, all of which, it might be added, is drawn from biblical sources, but so diluted with human error as to be more deadly than complete falsehood.”
― Walter Martin, The Kingdom of the Cults

“..humans love complexity of thought. This they pursue on the totally baseless assumption that complexity indicates profundity or truth.”
― Walter Martin

“It was Dr. Donald Grey Barnhouse who said that simply because a person is a member of a specific denomination, there is no reason to suppose that the entire denomination is represented by that person’s theology,”
― Walter Martin, The Kingdom of the Cults

“By the term cult I mean nothing derogatory to any group so classified. A cult, as I define it, is any religious group which differs significantly in one or more respects as to belief or practice from those religious groups which are regarded as the normative expressions of religion in our total culture.”
― Walter Martin, The Kingdom of the Cults

“I must dissent from the view that “all roads that lead to God are good” and believe instead the words of our Lord: “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6).”
― Walter Ralston Martin, The Kingdom of the Cults: The Definitive Work on the Subject

“Some Christians are afraid of demons, and they do not need to be. It is demons who are afraid of Christians.”
― Walter Ralston Martin, The Kingdom of the Occult