"Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed."

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"Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed."

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"The difference between christians and non christians is not their sins, but their sens."

Alin Sav, Romanian Author

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"I take leave to contradict those who say that salvation is an evolution! All that ever can be evolved out of the sinful heart of man is sin-and nothing else! Salvation is the free gift of God, by Jesus Christ, and the work of it is supernatural. It is done by the Lord Himself, and He has power to do it, however weak, no, however dead in sin, the sinner may be!"

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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"Tolstoy does not necessarily get rid of his angry temperament by undergoing religious conversion, and indeed it is obvious that the illusion of having been reborn may allow one's native vices to flourish more freely than ever, though perhaps in subtler forms."

George Orwell, British Author

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"Making God a man is the consolation prize that our forefathers gave themselves for not being the ones who were each blessed with a vagina."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"God is changing the guard indeed in the body of Christ worldwide. This I cannot be quiet about!"

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"A man of God who falls in love with a woman who worships idols will turn him to a zombie."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"He knew a great deal of the Bible already, and he knew the Bible believed in all sorts of weird stuff. According to the Bible, God Himself was at least one-third Ghost, and that was just the beginning. You could tell the Bible believed in demons, because Jesus threw a bunch of them out of this guy. Real chuckalicious ones, too. When Jesus asked the guy who had them what his name was, the demons answered and told Him to go join the Foreign Legion. Or something like that."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else."

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"The difference between christians and non christians is not their sins, but their sens."

"Tolstoy does not necessarily get rid of his angry temperament by undergoing religious conversion, and indeed it is obvious that the illusion of having been reborn may allow one's native vices to flourish more freely than ever, though perhaps in subtler forms."

"Making God a man is the consolation prize that our forefathers gave themselves for not being the ones who were each blessed with a vagina."

"God is changing the guard indeed in the body of Christ worldwide. This I cannot be quiet about!"

"Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man."

"A man of God who falls in love with a woman who worships idols will turn him to a zombie."

"Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it."

"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also."

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"Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed."

"A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else."

"Beginnings are always messy."

"One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes."

"A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it."

"When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different."

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