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"I take leave to contradict those who say that salvation is an evolution! All that ever can be evolved out of the sinful heart of man is sin-and nothing else! Salvation is the free gift of God, by Jesus Christ, and the work of it is supernatural. It is done by the Lord Himself, and He has power to do it, however weak, no, however dead in sin, the sinner may be!"
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"Tolstoy does not necessarily get rid of his angry temperament by undergoing religious conversion, and indeed it is obvious that the illusion of having been reborn may allow one's native vices to flourish more freely than ever, though perhaps in subtler forms."
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"Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity."
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"Every service is a structure of acts and words through which we rceive a sacrament, or repent, or supplicate, or adore. And it enables us to do these things best--if you like, it 'works' best--when, through long familiarity, we don't have to think about it. As long as you notice, and have to count, the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance."
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"Christianity if false is not important. If Christianity is true however it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important."
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"For Restoration Of Mankind To Be Fulfilled, A Terrible Sacrifice Was Necessary."
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"But who is Aslan? Do you know him?""Well-he knows me," said Edmund. "He is the great Lion, the son of the Emperor-beyond-the-Sea, who saved me and saved Narnia."
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"God is the same everywhere."
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"If men are so wicked with religion what would they be without it?"
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"There will be masses available all day long. Confession available all day long."
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"Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion."
Religion
"We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs."
Perception
"The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month."
Change
"Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant."
Motivational
"The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out."
Reason
"Plato wove historical fact into literary myth."
Fact
"We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage."
Science
"Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the existence of the physical body."
Soul
"Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable."
History
"When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience."
Experience
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