A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties. He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle -- pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.'.
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The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.
How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.
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.
Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs.
Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs.
Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord.
Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord.
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
God's first creature, which was light.
God's first creature, which was light.
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.
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
