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The church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
The church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
To me faith means not worrying.
To me faith means not worrying.
If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls read more
If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers.
I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.
I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.
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.
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody--it saves so much trouble.
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody--it saves so much trouble.
In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is read more
In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and extremism, for we have to convince ourselves that what we took as second choice is the best there ever was. Thus blind faith is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves; insatiable desire a substitute for hope; accumulation a substitute for growth; fervent hustling a substitute for purposeful action; and pride a substitute for an unattainable self-respect.
