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“Christianity as a specific doctrine was slain with Jesus, suddenly and utterly. He was hardly cold in his grave, or high in his heaven (as you please), before the apostles dragged the tradition of him down to the level of the thing it has remained ever since.”

Jesus Heaven Levels Christianity Cold Please Tradition Graves Doctrine Apostles

Book:The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929

Source: The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929

“If I were a young man With my bones full of marrow, Oh, if I were a bold young man Straight as an arrow, I'd store up no virtue For Heaven's distant plain, I'd live at ease as I did please And sin once again.”

Ifs Men Young Heaven Sin Virtue Please Bones Stores Ease Young Man Arrows Marrow

Book:Country Sentiment

Source: Country Sentiment

“Let the corporations do as they please -- pillage the environment, falsify their advertising, rig the securities markets -- and it is none of the federal government's business to interfere with the will of heaven.”

Government Heaven Environment Security Please Advertising Corporations Interfere Federal Government Rigs

Book:Waiting for the Barbarians

Source: Waiting for the Barbarians

“Some young people do not sufficiently understand the advantages of natural charms, and how much they would gain by trusting to them entirely. They weaken these gifts of heaven, so rare and fragile, by affected manners and an awkward imitation. Their tones and their gait are borrowed; they study their attitudes before the glass until they have lost all trace of natural manner, and, with all their pains, they please but little.”

People Littles Pain Young Lost Heaven Natural Attitude Study Please Gains Advantage Glasses Manners Tone Charm Affected Fragile Awkward Imitation Borrowed Gait

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.”

Mean Mother Dies Heaven Please Blessing

Author:William McKinley

“This feeling of accountability, which is encompassed by the first great commandment to love God, has been described by some as 'obedience to the unenforceable.' [John Fletcher Moulton.] We try to do what is right because we love and want to please our Father in Heaven, not because someone is forcing us to obey.”

Want Trying Firsts Has Beens Feelings Father Heaven Please Obedience God Love Accountability Commandments Our Father Father In Heaven

Author:Quentin L. Cook

“My conscience does not render a positive verdict in God’s courtroom when I look inside myself. The only reason I can sleep well at night is that even though my heart is filled with corruption and even though I am not doing my best to please him, I have in heaven at the Father’s right hand the beloved Son, who has not only done his best for himself but has fulfilled all righteousness for me in my place.”