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“The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing.”

Sometimes Seems Today Order Religious Moral Opposites Saving God Love Imperatives Prevailing Proclamation Saving Love

Book:Encountering Truth: Meeting God in the Everyday

Source: Encountering Truth: Meeting God in the Everyday

“I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent the Divine will. ... I hope it will not be irreverent for me to say that if it is probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me... These are not, however, the days of miracles ... I must study the plain physical facts of the case, ascertain what is possible, and learn what appears to be wise and right.”

Ifs Men Facts Might Certain Religious Opinion Cases Study Wise Advice Divine Duty Opposites Miracle Connected Positive Atheism Being Wise Irreverent Divine Will

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“There's nothing "wrong" with anything. "Wrong" is a relative term, indicating the opposite of that which you call "right." Yet, what is "right"? Can you be truly objective in these matters? Or are "right" and "wrong" simply descriptions overlaid on events and circumstances by you, out of your decision about them?”

Inspirational Matter Term Religious Decision Events Circumstances Opposites Objectives Description Relative

Book:The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

“I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent the Divine will. I am sure that either the one or the other class is mistaken in that belief, and perhaps in some respects both.”

Men Certain Belief Religious Opinion Class Advice Divine Opposites Mistaken Divine Will

Book:Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865 by Abraham Lincoln

Source: Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865 by Abraham Lincoln

“A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join.”

Persons Two Sex Religious Opposites Agree Spy Ceremony Husband And Wife Funny Marriage Marriage Humor Funny Wedding Husband Wife Marriage Ceremony Funny Husband And Wife

Book:Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work

Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work

“We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the "real" world and the unseen world as the "unreal" world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite.”

World Humans Real Faith Religious Human Beings Opposites Regard Real World Unseen Unreal Unreal World

Book:Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

Source: Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

“It doesn't take a brilliant mind to notice that adults are telling you what to do and then they do the opposite. I mean, I can't recall every stupid thing that adults were doing when I was six or seven. Some of it was the religious restrictions, where there were certain things that you were allowed to do and certain things that you weren't allowed to do, and I couldn't make sense of those things.”

Mind Mean I Can Certain Religious Stupid Six Adults Opposites Seven Brilliant Make Sense Recalls Restriction Stupid Things Very Stupid Brilliant Minds

Author:Al Jaffee

“I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely philosophical. I didn't want to. I'm not in the least a religious type. I want to be let alone, to feel I'm my own master; but since the facts seemed to be just the opposite, I had to give in.”

Want Giving Feels Facts Religious My Own Christianity Emotional Masters Type Opposites Philosophical Conversion Gave Up

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and the longer I stayed there, the more I perceived the great political consequences resulting from this new state of things. In France, I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom marching in opposite directions. But in America I found they were intimately united and that they reigned in common over the same country.”

Firsts Country States America Political Spirit Found Religious United Common Attention United States Consequence Aspect Opposites France Arrivals Great Political

Book:Democracy In America -- Vol. 1

Source: Democracy In America -- Vol. 1

“We know broadly from research is that religiosity does not correlate with sympathy for terrorism. It's actually quite the opposite. The more religious someone is, the more often they go to the mosque, the more likely they are to actually reject attacks on civilians.”

Knows Doe Religious Research Opposites Terrorism Rejects Civilians Mosques

Author:Chuck Todd

“Guard your mind from self-praise and flee a high opinion of yourself, so that God does not allow you to fall into the opposite passion to the virtue for which you boast, for man does not accomplish virtue alone, but with the help of God who sees all.”

Men Inspirational Mind Doe Self Helping Christian Fall Passion Religious Opinion Virtue Opposites Praise Accomplish Orthodox Boast Self Praise

Author:Marcus Eremita

“You focus on the here and now in order to escape existence forever and vanish into Nirvana. There is another religious impulse that is the opposite of this. It uses a world elsewhere in order to affirm life and give a reason to "go forth and multiply".”

World Giving Reason Use Order Religious Existence Forever Focus Opposites Impulse Elsewhere Here And Now

Author:Quentin S. Crisp

“I think that's why Donald Trump continues to enjoy evangelical support. They're not endorsing necessarily his lifestyle. What they're saying is this is a binary choice between one candidate, Donald Trump - who is pro-life, pro-religious liberty, pro-conservative justices of the Supreme Court - and another candidate, Hillary Clinton, who has an opposite view on all of those issues.”

“The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.”

Care Religious Atheism Opposites Atheist Gentle Agnostic Who Cares Fanatics True Believer Cynic Religious Fanatics Greatest Atheist

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“He (the devil) always sends errors into the world in pairs--pairs of opposites...He relies on your extra dislike of one to draw you gradually into the opposite one. But do not let us be fooled. We have to keep our eyes on the goal and go straight through between both errors. We have no other concern than that with either of them.”

World Eye Goal Religious Couple Draws Devil Concern Opposites Errors Novelists Satan Rely Extras Pairs Dislike Scholar Fooled

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them. And I shall dare to say this also, that to have them and always to observe them is injurious, and that to appear to have them is useful; to appear merciful, faithful, humane, religious, upright, and to be so, but with a mind so framed that should you require not to be so, you may be able and know how to change to the opposite.”

Knows Should Mind May Able Religious Quality Know How Opposites Dare Faithful Unnecessary Humane Merciful Framed Good Quality

Book:The Prince

Source: The Prince

“Thus it is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, sincere, religious, and also to be so; but you must have the mind so disposed that when it is needful to be otherwise you may be able to change to the opposite qualities.”

Mind Wells May Character Seems Able Religious Quality Opposites Faithful Sincere Humane Merciful

Book:The Prince

Source: The Prince

“Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the other declaration, that for SOME men to enslave OTHERS is a "sacred right of self-government." These principles can not stand together. They are as opposite as God and mammon; and whoever holds to the one, must despise the other.”

Men Years Self Government Running Together Religious Principles Equal Years Ago Opposites Sacred Despise Can Not Declaration Eighty Declaring Self-government

Book:The Portable Abraham Lincoln

Source: The Portable Abraham Lincoln

“I would describe my spirituality as exactly the opposite of having a religious affiliation.”

Spirit Spirituality Religious Opposites Affiliation

Author:Bill Maher

“There is something almost cruel about the Christian's being placed in a world which in every way wants to pressure him to do the opposite of what God bids him to do.”

World Way Want Christian Religious Opposites Pressure

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

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