Delusion Quote by William Peter Blatty

“When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth.” quote by William Peter Blatty — Download Open image

“When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth.”

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God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.

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“Ah, well … at last I realized that God would never ask of me that which I know to be psychologically impossible; that the love which He asked was in my will and not meant to be felt as emotion. No. Not at all. He was asking that I act with love; that I do unto others; and that I…

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“We have familiar experience of the order, the constancy, the perpetual renovation of the material world which surrounds us. Frail and transitory as is every part of it, restless and migratory as are its elements, still it abides. It is bound together by a law of permanence, and though it is ever dying, it is ever coming to life again.…

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“More rooted in logic was the silence of God. In the world there was evil and much of it resulted from doubt, from an honest confusion among men of good will. Would a reasonable God refuse to end it? Not finally reveal Himself? Not speak? “Lord, give us a sign…” The raising of Lazarus was dim in the distant past.…

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As far as God goes, I _am_ a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil---well, that's something else.

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Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith.

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The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us; but he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. His…

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“Abruptly sagging, Chris stared at the floor. “Go ahead,” she said softly. “Do whatever you have to. Just make her well.” “May”

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I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's.

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“Well, what’s wrong?” “I don’t know, Doc, I just can’t describe it! Please come over right away! Come now!”

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“They Said, "what sign can you give us to see, so that we may believe you?" - John 6: 30 - 31 You do not believe although you have seen... - John 6: 36 - 37”

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