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"Through the medium of prayer we go to our enemy, stand by his side, and plead for him to God."
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"A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist."


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


"Only the Prince of Peace gives peace."


"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."


"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."


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


"A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality."
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"A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes - and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent."

"If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could make something else responsible."

"Perhaps you still think you ought to think out beforehand and know what you ought to do. To that there is only one answer. You can only know and think about it by actually doing it. You can only learn what obedience is by obeying. It is no use asking questions, for it is only through obedience that you come to learn the truth."

"If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction."

"We should never argue with the devil about our sins, but we should speak about our sins only with Jesus."

"The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus' hands."

"Not in the flight of ideas, but only in action is freedom. Make up your mind and come out into the tempest of the living."

"While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task."
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