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Let us never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. What matters it if something threatens are head or our purse! Let us think only of that which threatens the soul.
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Victor Hugo |
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"The Lord is my shepherd." But if we are sheep why in heaven's name should we trust our shepherd? He's going to guard us from the wolves all right, oh yes, but only so that he can sell us later to the butcher."
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Graham Greene |
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Gods fight, Ragnar went on earnestly, and some win, some lose. The Christian god is losing. Otherwise why would we be here? Why would we be winning? The gods reward us if we give them respect, but the Christian god doesn't help his people, does he? They weep rivers of tears for him, they pray to him, they give him their silver, & we come along & slaughter them! Their god is pathetic. If he had any real power then we wouldn't be here, would we?
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Bernard Cornwell |
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"The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can "prove" anything from it."
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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We are all born free from all religious affiliations and only come to believe in such things after being introduced to it -- so, atheism is the default position. Although some children are not indoctrinated with a specific religion before the age of reason, there are many more who are.
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David G. McAfee |
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"So a good man can be a bad Christian?" "I suppose so." "Then a bad man," I said, "can be a good Christian?"
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religion-christianity
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Bernard Cornwell |
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Ain't no such thing as a little fault or a big fault. Satan get his foot in the door, he ain't going to rest till he's in the room. You is in the Word or you ain't--ain't no halfway with God.
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spirituality
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James Baldwin |
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Evil deeds are the fruit of an evil heart. They are not an aberration from our true self but a revelation of it.
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religion-christianity
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Sinclair B. Ferguson |
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Our problem, like Jonah's, does not lie in the parts of Scripture we find difficult to understand. Like him, we turn away from the word of the Lord that we do understand. We do not read it, we do not love it, we have become almost incapable of meditating upon it; we are careless, if not actually callous about submitting to it.
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Sinclair B. Ferguson |