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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
“Love, hatred, you have only to choose; they all sleep under the same roof; you can double your existence, caress with one hand and strike with the other.”
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les liaisons dangereuses

Robert Greene
“Do not swallow the easy moralism of the day, which urges honesty at the expense of desirability.”
Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature

J. Gresham Machen
“In the second place, will not culture destroy Christianity? Is it not far easier to be an earnest Christian if you confine your attention to the Bible and do not risk being led astray by the thought of the world? We answer, of course it is easier. Shut yourself up in an intellectual monastery, do not disturb yourself with the thoughts of unregenerate men, and of course you will find it easier to be a Christian, just as it is easier to be a good soldier in comfortable winter quarters than it is on the field of battle. You save your own soul—but the Lord’s enemies remain in possession of the field.”
J. Gresham Machen, Christianity, Culture, and Liberalism

J. Gresham Machen
“if religion consists merely in feeling the presence of God, it is devoid of any moral quality whatever. Pure feeling, if there be such a thing, is non-moral. What makes affection for a human friend, for example, such an ennobling thing is the knowledge which we possess of the character of our friend. Human affection, apparently so simple, is really just bristling with dogma. It depends upon a host of observations treasured up in the mind with regard to the character of our friend. But if human affection is thus really dependent upon knowledge, why should it be otherwise with that supreme personal relationship which is at the basis of religion? Why should we be indignant against slanders directed against a human friend, while at the same time we are patient about the basest slanders directed against our God? Certainly it does make the greatest possible difference what we think about God.”
J. Gresham Machen, Christianity, Culture, and Liberalism

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
“...the real way of vanquishing scruples is to leave those who have them nothing to lose.”
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les liaisons dangereuses

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