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It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice.
It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice.
When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.
When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.
How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.
How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.
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.
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
The church is actually patronized by the social order as a means of stabilizing and perpetuating the existing system.
The church is actually patronized by the social order as a means of stabilizing and perpetuating the existing system.
Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after.
Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after.
A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is read more
A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties. He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle -- pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.'.
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
