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“Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.”

Knows Mean Doe Lying Religion Order Speak Leadership Destruction Mere Lawyer Liars Portions Deceiving Deceptive Craftsman

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“If you worry, you are a worrier because your mind is saturated with worry thoughts. To counteract these, mark every passage in your Bible that speaks of faith, hope, and courage.”

Ifs Mind Religion Speak Worry Mark Passages Saturated Faith Hope

Book:Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living

Source: Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living

“There is one god, greatest among gods and men, who bears no similarity to humans either in shape or thought... but humans believe that the gods are born like themselves, and that the gods wear clothes and have bodies like humans and speak in the same way... but if cows and horses or lions had hands or could draw with the hands and manufacture the things humans can make, then horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, cows like cows, and they would make the gods' bodies resemble those which each kind of animal had itself.”

Ifs Men Way Believe Humans Kind Body Hands Form Religion Speak Born Animal Bears Morality Shapes Clothes Draws Horse Lions Cows Similarity

Author:Xenophanes

“God is not dumb, that he should speak no more; If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor.”

Ifs Should Soul Religion Speak Poor Wander Dumb Wilderness Sinai

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

“If thinking men would have the courage to think for themselves, and to speak what they think, it would be found they do not differ in religious opinions as much as is supposed.”

Ifs Thinking Men Would Be Religion Found Speak Religious Opinion Thinking Man

Book:Memoirs, 4: Correspondence and Private Papers

Source: Memoirs, 4: Correspondence and Private Papers

“And we find from Church history that the primitive Christians thus understood it; for that women did actually speak and preach amongst them we have indisputable proof.”

Christian Religion Speak Church Understood Proof Primitive Church History

Author:Catherine Booth

“A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes in it, cannot speak otherwise than religiously.”

Men Inspiration Religion Speak Drink Breathe

Book:PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS

Source: PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS

“When I speak of religion I mean a constant inward sense of communion with God.”

Mean Religion Speak Constant Inward Communion Communion With God

Book:Records and Reflections: Selected from Her Writings During Half a Century, April 3rd, 1840 to April 3rd, 1890

Source: Records and Reflections: Selected from Her Writings During Half a Century, April 3rd, 1840 to April 3rd, 1890

“Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.”

Ifs Wells Religion Speak Women Creeds

Book:Redburn.His First Voyage

Source: Redburn.His First Voyage

“If I meet the Christian Deity, I am lost: He is a tyrant and as such, is full of ideas of vengeance; His Bible speaks of nothing but fearful punishments. I never loved Him! I could never even believe that anyone did love Him sincerely. He is devoid of pity.... He will punish me in some abominable manner.”

Ifs Believe Ideas God Christian Religion Lost Speak Guilt Punishment Pity Tyrants Fearful Vengeance Deities Sincerely

Book:The Red and the Black: World Classics

Source: The Red and the Black: World Classics

“For if I should not believe all that is written by Historians, of the glorious acts of Alexander, or Caesar; I do not think the Ghost of Alexander, or Caesar, had any just cause to be offended; or any body else, but the Historian. If Livy say the Gods made once a Cow speak, and we believe it not; we distrust not God therein, but Livy. So that it is evident, that whatsoever we believe, upon no other reason, then what is drawn from authority of men only, and their writings; whether they be sent from God or not, is Faith in men only.”

Source: Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition

“Jesus is not from Georgia. Jesus does not speak English. And Jesus is not a member of the NRA.”

“A religion addresses the longing in us to have that said from which we can go on to speak of next and next things rightly, in their immediate time - the telling of what came first and before done forever.”

Firsts Said Done Religion Next Speak Forever Goes On Longing Addresses

Author:Laura Riding

“Organized religion is sane and not silly when read as myth and poetry rather than science and law. Religion speaks nonsense when taken literally, but reveals some of the deepest truths of humankind when understood mythically, poetically, and even allegorically-that is when it is read with an active and creative imagination.”

Law Religion Speak Imagination Creative Taken Understood Active Myth Tolerance Silly Organized Nonsense Openness Sane Humankind Organized Religion Creative Imagination

Author:Rami M. Shapiro

“"What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother tongue than be master of all the languages in Europe.”

Heart Christian Mother Religion Three Speak Language Prayer Masters My Heart Europe Sentences Tongue Mother Tongue

Book:The works of the Rev. John Newton ...: containing, an authentic narrative, etc., letters on religious subjects, cardiphonia, discourses intended for the pulpit, sermons preached in the parish church of Olney, a review of ecclesiastical history, Olney hymns, poems, Messiah, occasional sermons, and tracts, to which are prefixed, Memoirs of his life, &c. by the Rev. John Cecil

Source: The works of the Rev. John Newton ...: containing, an authentic narrative, etc., letters on religious subjects, cardiphonia, discourses intended for the pulpit, sermons preached in the parish church of Olney, a review of ecclesiastical history, Olney hymns, poems, Messiah, occasional sermons, and tracts, to which are prefixed, Memoirs of his life, &c. by the Rev. John Cecil

“I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.”

Men Religion Speak Makers Creeds

Book:CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

“He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.”

Philosophy Religion Literature Speak Tools

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.”

Inspirational Religion Faith Belief Speak Fear Atheism Evidence Atheist Anarchy Agnostic Parallels Heresy Belief Systems

Author:Ambrose Bierce