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Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. read more
Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. Where there is the necessary skill to move mountains there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds read more
Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.
It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important read more
It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.
Every time a child says "I don't believe in fairies" there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
Every time a child says "I don't believe in fairies" there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
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.
Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the read more
Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.
We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
