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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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"But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."
Truth
"And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts?"
Religion
"In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner."
Success
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."
Truth
"Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don't like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don't like it."
Creativity
"When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love."
Art
"The first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life."
Philosophy
"The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors. Can I finally hide from myself the fact that even today my old age is still stirred by the noonday demon when my eyes, in choir, happen to linger on the beardless face of a novice, pure and fresh as a maiden's?"
Philosophy
"When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules."
Art
"Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow."
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