| Quotation 1 : | DELUSION
"It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them." |
| Rose Macaulay |
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| Quotation 2 : | DELUSION
"The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion." |
| Derek Jarman |
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| Quotation 3 : | DELUSION
"It is a very solemn delusion when ministers think they are prospering, and yet do not hear of conversions." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 4 : | DELUSION
"There is no excuse for falling into delusion, which is so contrary to the Word of God." |
| Dave Hunt |
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| Quotation 5 : | DELUSION
"The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion." |
| Bodhidharma |
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| Quotation 6 : | DELUSION
"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." |
| Carl Sagan |
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| Quotation 7 : | DELUSION
"Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore." |
| Guru Nanak |
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| Quotation 8 : | DELUSION
"A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence." |
| Richard Dawkins |
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| Quotation 9 : | DELUSION
"Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion." |
| Jim Rohn |
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| Quotation 10 : | DELUSION
"No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities." |
| Christian Nestell Bovee |
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| Quotation 11 : | DELUSION
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness." |
| Leo Tolstoy |
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| Quotation 12 : | DELUSION
"Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth." |
| Ludwig Borne |
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| Quotation 13 : | DELUSION
"There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves." |
| David Hume |
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| Quotation 14 : | DELUSION
"To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion." |
| Bodhidharma |
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| Quotation 15 : | DELUSION
"The world in general has meaning, deep meaning at times. This cannot be dismissed as a delusion, an artifact of chemicals." |
| Deepak Chopra |
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| Quotation 16 : | DELUSION
"Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we're saved!) other people are real again, and we're fond of them." |
| George Saunders |
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| Quotation 17 : | DELUSION
"No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society." |
| Charles E. Wilson |
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| Quotation 18 : | DELUSION
"The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation." |
| Arthur Erickson |
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| Quotation 19 : | DELUSION
"It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes." |
| Saint Ignatius |
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| Quotation 20 : | DELUSION
"Do you fancy that the eternal God is to be put off with these vain resolutions and to be mocked with these idle dreams of what you will do, when you do nothing whatever? Oh, may God save you from such a delusion!" |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 21 : | DELUSION
"Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify conduct. It is in the very nature of things that we must quit praying, or quit bad conduct." |
| E.M. Bounds |
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| Quotation 22 : | DELUSION
"While we are zealous for good works, let us be careful not to put them in the place of Christ's righteousness, and not to advance anything which may betray others into so dreadful a delusion." |
| Matthew Henry |
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| Quotation 23 : | DELUSION
"We are too apt to rest in a bare profession of faith, and to think that this will save us; it is a cheap and easy religion to say, "We believe in the articles of the Christian faith;" but it is a great delusion to imagine that this is enough to bring us t" |
| Matthew Henry |
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| Quotation 24 : | DELUSION
"Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time." |
| Philip Yancey |
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| Quotation 25 : | DELUSION
"Now, it should not surprise us that there are strong deceptions or "powerful delusions" around today, for this is exactly what the Scriptures predict will happen. All the way through the New Testament we are warned of these days - over and over again." |
| Andrew Strom |
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| Quotation 26 : | DELUSION
"I seek the will of the Spirit of God through or in connection with the Word of God. The Spirit and the Word must be combined. If I look to the Spirit alone without the Word, I lay myself open to great delusions also." |
| George Mueller |
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| Quotation 27 : | DELUSION
"Remember, it is not your weakness that will get in the way of God's working through you, but your delusions of strength. His strength is made perfect in our weakness! Point to His strength by being willing to admit your weakness." |
| Paul David Tripp |
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| Quotation 28 : | DELUSION
"Each time we surrender our minds to meditate on base and sordid objects their grip on our lives is intensified. To think we can decrease our affinity for sinful pleasure apart from a concentrated fixation on the spiritually sublime is simply delusional. (" |
| Sam Storms |
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