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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory read more
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory except the face of the woman on the American silver dollar.
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.
Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.
Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.
A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it.
A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it.
The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas read more
The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.
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.
It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and read more
It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.
The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected read more
The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner read more
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
