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Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.
Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.
Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.
Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted read more
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.
For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
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.
Every time a child says "I don't believe in fairies" there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
Every time a child says "I don't believe in fairies" there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would read more
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow the teachings of the new, he would be insane.
Fellowship with God means warfare with the world.
Fellowship with God means warfare with the world.
Faith is the refusal to panic.
Faith is the refusal to panic.