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“It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.”

Motivational Motivation Religion Work Quality Please Quantity Longevity Metaphysics Workmanship Quality Work Quantity And Quality Quality Not Quantity

Book:Young India

Source: Young India

“To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.”

Religion Watches Please Authority Fingers Conviction Backwards

Book:Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

“So upright Quakers please both man and God.”

Men Religion Please Quaker

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., with Notes and Illustrations, by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks by William Roscoe, Esq

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., with Notes and Illustrations, by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks by William Roscoe, Esq

“When table utensils were invented in the 1100s, the Catholic Church condemned them as obscene and heretical, claiming, 'God gave us fingers with which to eat.' And we're supposed to get politically discouraged? Oh please. We're being opposed by people who denounced the fork.”

People Religion Church Feminism Please Catholic Tables Fingers Discouraged Catholic Church Forks Obscene Utensils

Author:Robin Morgan

“The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. . . The two chief teachings of this religion are these: Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.”

Men Said Two Helping Hands Religion Names Can Do Church Teaching Please Luck Chiefs Almighty Indifferent Hands Of God

Book:The Sirens of Titan

Source: The Sirens of Titan

“It's always been you know, religion that has been the primary impediment to actual relationship with God, because it creates a mythology about performance -- that you can perform your way into the appeasement of the deity. And you know, when you're born inside the cultural framework that I was, and you're born inside the religious traditions that I was, that becomes your understanding of spirituality: That it's about trying to please God. So, it's really not about God at all; it's about our ability to perform according to whatever the expectations are.”

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