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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the read more
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and read more
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he read more
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory read more
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory except the face of the woman on the American silver dollar.
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." read more
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are read more
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
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.
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.
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
