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And if your right eye causes you to fall into sin, tear it out and throw it away. It’s better that you lose a part of your body than that your whole body be thrown into hell. And if your right hand causes you to fall into sin, chop it off and throw it away. It’s better that you lose a part of your body than that your whole body go into hell.
“As long as you have some idea of what’s happening to you, ‘real’ or ‘unreal’ doesn’t matter. You have to stand up for what you care about; if you don’t, you lose control of who you are.”
― The Wounded Land
― The Wounded Land
“It is the Holy Spirit's job to convict, God's job to judge and my job to love.”
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“A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.”
― The Abolition of Man
― The Abolition of Man
“An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man's mind is open on these things, let his mouth at least be shut. He can say nothing to the purpose. Outside the Tao there is no ground for criticizing either the Tao or anything else.”
― The Abolition of Man
― The Abolition of Man
“What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.”
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