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“When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool”

Men Law Religious Effects Produce Fool Convince

Book:The letters of Peter Plymley, essays, and speeches

Source: The letters of Peter Plymley, essays, and speeches

“The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual truth of anything; it was designed in the darkest days of human history to produce false confessions in order to annihilate political and religious dissidents. And that is how it always works: it gets confessions regardless of their accuracy.”

Knows Firsts Humans Political Order Religious One Thing Produce Torture Working It Confession Human History Accuracy Dissidents

Author:Andrew Sullivan

“We try to evade the question of existence with property, prestige, power, possession, production, fun, and, ultimately, by trying to forget that we- that I- exist. No matter how much he thinks of God or goes to church, or how much he believes in religious ideas , if he, the whole man, is deaf to the question of existence, if he does not have an answer to it, he is marking time, and he lives and dies like one of the million things he produces. He thinks of God, instead of experiencing God.”

“To show that there are natural processes that produce religious belief does nothing, so far, to discredit it; perhaps God designed us in such a way that it is by virtue of those processes that we come to have knowledge of him.”

Way Doe Shows Belief Process Natural Religious Virtue Produce Religious Belief Discredit

Book:Warranted Christian Belief

Source: Warranted Christian Belief

“So much of your present experience is based on your previous thought. Thought leads to experience, which leads to thought, which leads to experience. This can produce constant joy when the Sponsoring Thought is joyous. It can, and does, produce continual hell when the Sponsoring Thought is hellatious.”

Inspirational Doe Joy Religious Hell Produce Constant Joyous

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“Obedience is not creation, and thus can never produce salvation. Obedience is a response, while creation is pure choice, undictated, unrequired. Pure choice produces salvation through the pure creation of highest idea in this moment now.”

Inspirational Ideas Moments Choices Religious Creation Produce Pure Highest Salvation Response Obedience

Book:Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

“Faith is like love, it cannot be forced. Therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or bind it by state regulations; for, as the attempt to force love begets hatred, so also to compel religious belief produces rank unbelief.”

Ifs Love Made States Belief Force Religious Love Is Dangerous Produce Hatred Operations Regulation Introducing Begets Religious Belief Unbelief Like Love

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“If a man has no worries about himself at all for the sake of love toward God and the working of good deeds, knowing that God is taking care of him, this is a true and wise hope. But if a man takes care of his own business and turns to God in prayer only when misfortunes come upon him which are beyond his power, and then he begins to hope in God, such a hope is vain and false. A true hope seeks only the Kingdom of God... the heart can have no peace until it obtains such a hope. This hope pacifies the heart and produces joy within it.”