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    The prevailing legal and moral views of a time are held not only by those whom they benefit but by those, too, who appear to suffer from them. Their domination is expressed in that fact- that the people from whom they claim sacrifice accept them.

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

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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 read more

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.

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And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

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A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for?" he asked. "I am weeping for my sins," said read more

A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for?" he asked. "I am weeping for my sins," said the lad. "You must have little to do," said the man. The next day, they met again. Once more the lad was weeping. "Why do you weep now?" asked the man. "I am weeping because I have nothing to eat," said the lad. "I thought it would come to that," said the man.

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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.

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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.

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The church is the great lost and found department.

The church is the great lost and found department.

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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that read more

If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.

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A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

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