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“Christ did not come to civilize. He came to save. Civilization is not the solution; it does not destroy the works of the devil. All civilization aims at world improvement, at the gradual elimination of the curse; it is a process of evolution. It is like a man who is suffering from a terrible disease, and the physician who comes to help him gives him a salve to apply. He treats the skin symptoms but the source of the disease he never considers and never touches. Such is a boasted and progressive civilization. It is a delusion.”

“If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic -- to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do you become aware of them.”

Ifs Giving Firsts Failing Devil Aim Anesthetics

Book:God in the Dock

Source: God in the Dock

“If you aim at a Scottish presbytery, it agreeth as well with monarchy, as God and the devil. ... No bishop, no King! I will make them conform themselves, or else I will harry them out of the land, or else do worse.”

Ifs Wells Land Kings Devil Aim Conform Monarchy Bishops Scottish

Author:King James I

“If I were the devil, one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible.”

Ifs Firsts Would Be Devil Aim Folks Digging

Author:J. I. Packer

“It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless.”

Evil Devil Aim Meaningless Lure

Author:Donald Miller