“Manly natural religion - it is not joining the Church; it is not to believe in a creed, Hebrew, Protestant, Catholic, Trinitarian, Unitarian, Nothingarian. It is not to keep Sunday idle; to attend meetings; to be wet with water; to read the Bible; to offer prayers in words; to take bread and wine in the meeting house; love a scape-goat Jesus, or any other theological clap-trap.” BelieveHouseJesusWaterNaturalChurchPrayerAtheismOffersCatholicWineMeetingsPositive AtheismBreadSundayWetCreedsTrapsIdleJoiningTheologicalProtestantsGoatsManlyHebrewUnitarianBread And WineScapes Author:Theodore Parker
“The Christians think I am making a mistake by not trying the New Testament and meeting Jesus. The Jews tend to think I am making a mistake by reading without support from educated people. After all, there is 2,000 years of scholarship about the book, they say, so it's perverse of me to ignore it.” PeopleThinkingTryingYearsBookChristianReadingJesusMistakeSupportMeetingsJewEducatedMaking MistakesTestamentNew TestamentScholarship Author:David Plotz
“Too many sit at the banquet table of the gospel of Jesus Christ and merely nibble at the feast placed before them. They go through the motions - attending their meetings perhaps, glancing at scriptures, repeating familiar prayers - but their hearts are far away.” HeartJesusChristPrayerJesus ChristTablesMeetingsScriptureFamiliarFar AwayAttendingBanquets Author:Joseph B. Wirthlin
“In our Richmond there is much fanaticism, but chiefly among the women. They have their night meetings and prayer parties, where, attended by their priests, and sometimes by a hen-pecked husband, they pour forth the effusions of their love to Jesus, in terms as amatory and carnal, as their modesty would permit them to use a mere earthly lover.” SometimesUseNightJesusTermPrayerPartyAtheismLoversHusbandMeetingsMerePositive AtheismPriestsPermitModestyFanaticismHensRichmond Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826 Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826
“Jesus was the meeting place of eternity and time, the blending of deity and humanity, the junction of heaven and earth.” EarthHumanityJesusHeavenEternityMeetingsDeitiesHeaven And EarthJunction Book:Moody Classics Complete Set Source: Moody Classics Complete Set