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Does he say novenas
for those with no venus
(to Dan Brown).
Author: Saiom Shriver
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If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers.
Author: George F. Pentecost
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
Author: Francis H. Bradley
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The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be: But when he got well, a wolf once more was he.
Author: Walter Brower
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Treat others as thou wouldn't be treated. What thou likest not for thyself, dispense not to others.
Author: Sufism
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A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Author: Havelock Ellis
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Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by refusing to acknowledge the facts.
Author: F.a. Hayek
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...the ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs.
Author: F.a. Hayek
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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.
Author: F.a. Hayek
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At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history. To human nature (of the sort conceived), in a universe (of the kind imagined), after a history (so understood), the rules of the code apply.
Author: Walter Lippmann
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A man often preaches his beliefs precisely when he has lost them and is looking everywhere for them, and, on such occasions, his preaching is by no means at its worst.
Author: Melancthon
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Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs.
Author: Ludwig Von Mises
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Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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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).
Author: Thomas Sowell
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If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
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With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.
Author: Ludwig Von Mises
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The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.
Author: Frank Harris
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The neer to the church, the further from God.
Author: John Heywood
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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.
Author: G. K. Chesterton
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The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
Author: G. K. Chesterton
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I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
Author: William M. Holden
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The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
Author: Jules Renard
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The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
Author: Robert Short
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It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
Author: Billy Sunday
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Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
Author: C. Stacey Woods
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Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
Author: Chapman Cohen
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Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
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One should not stand at the foot of a sick person's bed, because that place is reserved for the guardian angel.
Author: Jewish Folk Saying
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Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
Author: Frederick The Great
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The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.
Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
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Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?".
Author: Annie Dillard
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I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Author: Kahlil Gibran
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If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
Author: Kahlil Gibran
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The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine?
Author: Judith Hayes
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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
Author: H. L. Mencken
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The whole point of Christianity is that everyone in the world, from Charles Manson to Mother Teresa, deserves to go to hell.
Author: Sean Ningen
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Creation science is an attempt to give credibility to Hebrew mythology by making people believe that the world's foremost biologists, paleontologists, and geologists are a bunch of incompetent nincompoops.
Author: Ron Peterson
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The Bible is literature, not dogma.
Author: George Santayana
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Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.
Author: Marianne Williamson
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The church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
Author: Charles De Gaulle
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The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.
Author: William Ralph Inge
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Only the sinner has a right to preach.
Author: Christopher Morley
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Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.
Author: Austin O'malley
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
Author: Woodrow Wilson
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The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.
Author: Edgar A. Guest
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It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after.
Author: Thomas Fuller
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