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The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the read more
The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of the time is always determined by the views on which the opposing schools agree. They become the unspoken presuppositions of all thought, and common and unquestioningly accepted foundations on which all discussion proceeds.
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within read more
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
Doubt is the beginning not the end of wisdom
Doubt is the beginning not the end of wisdom
Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
As if Religion were intended
For nothing else but to be mended.
As if Religion were intended
For nothing else but to be mended.
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is read more
A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties. He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle -- pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.'.
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
I do not like 'but yet, it does allay
The good precedence: fie upon 'but yet,'
'But read more
I do not like 'but yet, it does allay
The good precedence: fie upon 'but yet,'
'But yet' is as a jailer to bring forth
Some monstrous malefactor.
