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"Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object."
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"Look to the Lord and the power of His grace."
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"I have read the bible, seen its errors and perfections, but the bits of lie contained therein has contaminated the truth."
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"Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent."
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"Freedom of religion is not enough; we need the extinction of it, because no one has turned to be a religious by their own choice."
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"One of the reasons God did not make a lover for Himself when He made one for Adam is because He knew that fewer people would take Him seriously once He had an ex."
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"A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows."
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"All ministries, therefore, must be subjected to this test-if they do not glorify Christ, they are not of the Holy Spirit."
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"Religion comes not where reign fundamentalism and authoritarianism."
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"Soul winning for Christ Jesus is a great business everyone must endeavor to start and keep it diligently."
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"Religion is a set of rituals."
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"Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words."
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