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I hope I never get so old I get religious.
I hope I never get so old I get religious.
In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners.
In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners.
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are not read more
Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are not wrong who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it.
A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it.
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
Various kinds of ideas can be classified by their relationship to the authentication process. There are ideas systematically prepared for read more
Various kinds of ideas can be classified by their relationship to the authentication process. There are ideas systematically prepared for authentication ("theories"), ideas not derived from any systematic process ("visions"), ideas which could not survive any reasonable authentication process ("illusions"), ideas which exempt themselves from any authentication process ("myths"), ideas which have already passed authentication processes ("facts"), as well as ideas known to have failed- or certain to fail- such processes ("falsehoods" - both mistakes and lies).
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
