"Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race."

Alfred Russel Wallace, British Scientist

Religion, Conflict, Conquest, Opinion

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"Funny how people that don't believe in nothin' are so quick to believe every crazy story about people like us."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"Anything I cannot thank God for for the sake of Christ, I may not thank God for at all; to do so would be sin. ... We cannot rightly acknowledge the gifts of God unless we acknowledge the Mediator for whose sake alone they are given to us."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German Theologian

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"Once upon a time in the land of Shinar, God came down to see the city and the tower. People were united and spoke in one language. Then God confound their language and caused them scattered all over the planet earth. I believe, because of our technology, there will be one computer-based language on earth. Then God will come back again and make us all scattered all over the stars constellation."

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"Scriptures are meant to serve humanity, not humanity to serve scriptures."

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"I have covenanted with my Lord that He should not send visions, or dreams or even angels! I am content with this gift of the Scriptures, which teaches and supplies all that is necessary both for this life and that which is to come."

Martin Luther, German Leader

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"The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture."

Richard Dawkins, English Scientist

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"Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions."

Steve Hackett, English Writer

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"All heroes are shadows of Christ."

John Piper, American Clergyman

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"A Christian's mindset should be a victorious mentality."

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"To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity."

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"I have since wandered among men of many races and many religions."

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"I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind."

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"In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death."

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"To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception."

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"In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found."

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"But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life."

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"Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time."

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"As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways."

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"I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain."

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