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Oliver Holmes, Jr.

"The great act of faith is when a man decides that he is not God."

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Brennan Manning

"A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist."

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Brennan Manning

"Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations."

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Brennan Manning

"Only the Prince of Peace gives peace."

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Brennan Manning

"There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't."

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Brennan Manning

"A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory."

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Brennan Manning

"The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes."

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Brennan Manning

"Keep your hope in the Lord."

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Brennan Manning

"Religion is a cultural relic inherited from ancient civilizations that doctrinal influence persists globally in modern times. Religious people rely upon their notional belief in the primal innocence of human beings in order to support the abstract supposition of inherently benevolent God guiding human souls."

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Brennan Manning

"Unlike most other world religions, Buddhism has never been too rigid in its structure."

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Brennan Manning

"A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality."

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Oliver Holmes, Jr.
"To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences."

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Oliver Holmes, Jr.
"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master."

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Oliver Holmes, Jr.
"One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."

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Oliver Holmes, Jr.
"A mind stretched by a new ideanever shrinks back to its original proportions."

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Oliver Holmes, Jr.
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."

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Oliver Holmes, Jr.
"The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience."

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Oliver Holmes, Jr.
"Life is action and passion therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time at peril of being judged not to have lived."

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Oliver Holmes, Jr.
"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived."

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Oliver Holmes, Jr.
"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."

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Oliver Holmes, Jr.
"Realize life as an end in itself. Functioning is all there is."

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