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The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.
The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.
Preaching is heady wine. It is pleasant to tell people where they get off.
Preaching is heady wine. It is pleasant to tell people where they get off.
There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.
There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.
If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.
If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.
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.
As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as read more
As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.
With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.
With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.
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.
to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, read more
to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
