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“The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.”

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B. C. Forbes was an American journalist and publisher, born on May 14, 1880, and died on May 6, 1954. He is best known for founding Forbes magazine, which focuses on business, wealth, and investment. more

“Religion must be used in furthering great works of justice and reform. It must be used to establish right relations between different groups of men, and thus to make a reality of brotherhood. It must be used to abolish poverty, the breeding ground of all misery and crime, by distributing equably among men the abundance of the soil. And it must be used to get rid of war and to establish enduring peace. Here is the supreme test of the effectiveness of religion.”

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Author:John Haynes Holmes

“What church I go to on Sunday, what dogma of the Catholic Church I believe in, is my business; and whatever faith any other American has is his business.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.”

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Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.”

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Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.”

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Author:Lance Morrow

“The New Testament never simply says, "Remember Jesus Christ." That is a half-finished sentence. It says, "Remember Jesus Christ is risen from the dead."”

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Author:Robert Runcie

“While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support.”

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Book:Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral and Religious

Source: Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral and Religious

“A former congressman on his sexting habit: I have made terrible mistakes. I have not been honest with myself, my family, my constituents, my friends and supporters and the media.”

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Author:Anthony Weiner

“The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for the existence of God.”

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Book:Autobiography and Selected Letters

Source: Autobiography and Selected Letters

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