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The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended something simpler.
If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended something simpler.
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.
One should not stand at the foot of a sick person's bed, because that place is reserved for the guardian read more
One should not stand at the foot of a sick person's bed, because that place is reserved for the guardian angel.
God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
In isolated societies creeds can be preserved. It is where people of different traditions, outlook and creeds mingle freely and read more
In isolated societies creeds can be preserved. It is where people of different traditions, outlook and creeds mingle freely and exchange ideas that religious beliefs begin to be eroded. No one changes his beliefs without some instigation, some novel experience, some modification of the customary course of things, and in a closed society people believe what all their fellows obviously believe. Only when they are brought into contact with persons whom they respect holding different views do they begin to look at their inherited beliefs critically.
Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in read more
Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
