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    Czesław Miłosz
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    And now we are witnessing a transformation. A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death—the huge solace of thinking that our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders are not going to...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.

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    Dorothy L. Sayers
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    In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothi...

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    Jeffrey Burton Russell
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    [Hell] is nowhere and has no characteristics, the fit dwelling for those who have chosen nothingness over reality.,

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    Blaise Pascal
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    Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

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    Edmund Burke
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    The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.

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    Jacques Ellul
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    No one knows where we are going, the aim of life has been forgotten, the end has been left behind. Man has set out at tremendous speed- to go nowhere.

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    Jack Hyles
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    There is nothing in this world so empty as getting what you want.

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    Rowan Williams
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    The truth is simpler… and more alarming. [This] is the end of religious experience, the very opposite of mysticism…. We have been going round the paths, and suddenly we see our path goes round a hole,...

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    Russell Kirk
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    Individualism is a denial that life has any meaning except the gratification of the ego; in politics it must end anarchy. It is not possible for one man to be both Christian and individualist.

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    Lesslie Newbigin
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    The relativism which is not willing to speak about truth but only about ‘what is true for me’ is an evasion of the serious business of living. It is the mark of a tragic loss of nerve in our contempor...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Romans 1:21-23, Romans 12:2, Proverbs 1:7, Jeremiah 9:23-24, Matthew 22:37-40, Colossians 2:8, 1 Corinthians 1:18-21
    [The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

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    Ayn Rand
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    Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

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    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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    Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.

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    W. B. Yeats
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    Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.

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    J. K. Rowling
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    There is no good or evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it.

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    Martin Luther
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    God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.

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    John Stott
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    Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.

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    Sebastian Junger
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    Humans don’t mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary. It’s time for that to end.

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    Thomas Wolfe
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    The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. (For Contrast).

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    Jennie Allen
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    Hebrews 11:1, Romans 15:13, Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 5:3-5, Lamentations 3:21-23
    Doubt steals hope. And with no hope, everything that matters doesn’t feel as important anymore.

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    Dallas Willard
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    The disappearance of moral knowledge, in the manner reviewed, is not an expression of truth rationally secured, but is the outcome of an historical drift, with no rational justification at all or only...

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    Thomas Jefferson
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    Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

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    Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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    If God does not exist, everything is permissible.

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    Michel de Montaigne
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    The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

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    Karl Barth
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    The statement that 'God is dead' comes from Nietzsche and has recently been trumpeted abroad by some German and American theologians. But the good Lord has not died of this; He who dwells in t...

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    Woodrow Kroll
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    When it comes to life and death, there's no third option.

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    J. R. R. Tolkein
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    Jeremiah 29:11, Lamentations 3:21-23, 1 Peter 1:3-4, Psalm 27:13-14, Isaiah 40:31
    It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not. (Spoken by Galadriel)

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    Hal Donaldson
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    Apathy is telling yourself, The most important thing is that I make it through to the other side—what happens to everyone else is their business. It’s saying, Change is impossible or inevitable no mat...

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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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    Hebrews 12:11, 1 Corinthians 5:12, Ezekiel 3:18, Proverbs 27:5-6, Matthew 18:15, Galatians 6:1
    Nothing can be more cruel than that leniency which abandons others to their sin.
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