Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.
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No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
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The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.
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Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
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Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
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The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four.
What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four.
