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There is something in us that fears prayer as a maggot fears light. We must do violence to this voice, for it is not ourselves. It is our Enemy.

There is something in us that fears prayer as a maggot fears light. We must do violence to this voice, for it is not ourselves. It is our Enemy.
– Peter Kreeft

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  2. You do not have to wait until you become a saint. [Prayer] is the way to become a saint. – Peter Kreeft
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  4. Maxim 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s enemy. No more. No less.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries – Howard Tayler
  5. There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don’t. – Lemony Snicket
  6. As if violence could make light. Maybe violence could make light. – Aspen Matis
  7. The fish does not know it is wet. America is immersed in violence. The violence is in our souls. The enemy is within. – Bryant McGill
  8. It is true, as John Bunyan said, that God infinitely prefers a heart without words to words without a heart when we pray. – Peter Kreeft
  9. Léon Bloy wrote: ‘Life holds only one tragedy: not to have been a saint – Peter Kreeft
  10. It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil. – Peter Kreeft
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  12. Feelings, like waves, look more substantial than they are. – Peter Kreeft
  13. Reason is flawless, de jure, but reasoners are not, de facto. – Peter Kreeft
  14. Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God. – Peter Kreeft
  15. We also self-inflict violence, because violence is our only way of relating to the world, to others and to ourselves. – Bryant McGill
  16. As long as we do violence to other animals, we’ll keep on doing violence to ourselves. – Paul Russell
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  18. She gave herself a hard twist and fell into a sitting position, staring at me with those maggot-filled doll’s eyes. – Steven Ramirez
  19. A maggot is just another life form. – Shinmon Aoki
  20. The most dangerous enemy is that enemy when your ally becomes enemy – Kamaran Ihsan Salih
  21. The history of your world is filled with the voice of the victor, the voice of power, although it was not always a voice of sanity, by any means. – Barbara Marciniak
  22. I will have my serpent’s tongue – my woman’s voice, my sexual voice, my poet’s voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence. – Gloria E Anzalda
  23. Violence can only breed more violence and suffering. Our struggle must remain non-violent and free of hatred. – Dalai Lama XIV
  24. I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears. – Max Brooks
  25. Peter Wessel and Peter Van Daan have grown into one Peter, who is beloved and good, and for whom I long desperately. – Anne Frank
  26. Peter Wessel and Peter Van Daan have grown into one Peter, who is beloved and good, and for whom I long desperately. – Anne Frank
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  28. We must repent of our prayerlessness. We must make prayer our priority. Even our churches today have gotten away from prayer meetings. – Billy Graham
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  32. To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy. – Sun Tzu
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  34. Your Heart’s Desire is the Voice of God, and that Voice must be obeyed sooner or later. – Emmet Fox
  35. Deeply-rooted conditioning has perverted us. We ARE the culture of violence. We must look at ourselves. – Bryant McGill
  36. Prayer is a way of language practiced in the presence of God in which we become more than ourselves while remaining ourselves. – Eugene H Peterson
  37. To be effective the preacher’s message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God’s present voice to a particular people. – AW Tozer
  38. I miss the fears of the past few weeks, rendered small by my fears now. – Veronica Roth
  39. America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men’s cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick. – Walter Abish
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