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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.
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so read more
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
The Bible is literature, not dogma.
The Bible is literature, not dogma.
It is easier for a camel to pass through they eye of the needle than for a rich man to read more
It is easier for a camel to pass through they eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.
The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the read more
The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of the time is always determined by the views on which the opposing schools agree. They become the unspoken presuppositions of all thought, and common and unquestioningly accepted foundations on which all discussion proceeds.
With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.
With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.
God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you read more
God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.
Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs.
Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs.
