"An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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"An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it."

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"But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end of divine beings."

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"Life in Christ is far richer."

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"You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility."

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"All earth's candles cannot make daylight if the Sun of Righteousness be eclipsed. He is the soul of our soul, the light of our light, the life of our life."

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"When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle."

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"Pious people spoke to God, and crazy people imagined that God spoke back."

Philip K. Dick, American Writer

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"It is ill to offer God one duty stained with the blood of another."

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"I serve," should be the motto of all the princes of the royal family of heaven."

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"But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end of divine beings."

"Life in Christ is far richer."

"You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility."

"All earth's candles cannot make daylight if the Sun of Righteousness be eclipsed. He is the soul of our soul, the light of our light, the life of our life."

"God has forgiven and still forgives us when we repent from our sins, an indication that we are not called to sin, but to live in accordance with His will."

"When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle."

"Pious people spoke to God, and crazy people imagined that God spoke back."

"It is ill to offer God one duty stained with the blood of another."

"Faith is the road, but communion with Jesus is the well from which the pilgrim drinks."

"I serve," should be the motto of all the princes of the royal family of heaven."

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"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."