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Treat others as thou wouldn't be treated. What thou likest not for thyself, dispense not to others.
Treat others as thou wouldn't be treated. What thou likest not for thyself, dispense not to others.
The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; which proceed sciences which may read more
The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; which proceed sciences which may be called "sciences as one would." For what a man had rather were true he more readily believes. Therefore he rejects difficult things from impatience of research; sober things, because they narrow hope; the deeper things of nature, from superstition; the light of experience, from arrogance and pride; things not commonly believed, out of deference to the opinion of the vulgar. Numberless in short are the ways, and sometimes imperceptible, in which the affections color and infect the understanding.
Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1].
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1].
We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
Only the sinner has a right to preach.
Only the sinner has a right to preach.
The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected read more
The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.
