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“Before one can correctly understand the work of the Holy Spirit, he must first of all know the Spirit himself. A frequent source of error and fanaticism about the work of the Holy Spirit is the attempt to study and understand His work without, first of all, coming to know Him as a person.”

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Book:THE PERSON AND WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

Source: THE PERSON AND WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

“I do believe that the original sources of all religions should be taught, because with that we will find our similarities, not just our differences.”

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Author:Yehuda Berg

“My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.”

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Book:Why I Am Not a Christian

Source: Why I Am Not a Christian

“Love, the one supreme, unceasing source of human felicity, the one sole joy which lifts the whole mortal existence into the empyrean, was by it [Christianity] degraded into the mere mechanical action of reproduction.”

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Book:Views and Opinions

Source: Views and Opinions

“Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.”

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Book:Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches

Source: Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches

“I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.”

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Author:Christopher Hitchens

“It will be proper to take a review of the several sources from which governments have arisen, and on which they have been founded.”

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Book:The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies

Source: The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies

“And how can we ever again succeed in educating children to become moral men and women if, in America's public schools, we consciously deny them all religious instruction, and deny them access to that primary source of morality, God's own word. The Bible is the one book from which they are expressly not allowed to be taught.”

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Author:Pat Buchanan

“... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is, the deepest source of contentions, wars, persecutions for conscience sake, angry words, angry feelings, backbitings, slanders, suspicions, false judgments, evil interpretations, unwise, unjust, injurious, inconsistent actions.”

Source: Course of popular lectures as delivered by Frances Wright: with three addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789. Second edition

“Only through religion can logic develop into philosophy, only from this source stems that which makes philosophy more than science. And without religion we will have only novels, or the triviality today called belles lettres instead of an eternally rich and infinite poetry.”

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Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“There is no possible source of evil except good.”

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Author:Saint Augustine

“To those who wish to punish others -- or at least to see them punished, if the avengers are too cowardly to take matters in to their own hands -- the belief in a fiery, hideous hell appears to be a great source of comfort.”

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Book:Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, & Morality

Source: Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, & Morality

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”

Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“The less I seek my source for some definitive, the closer I am to fine.”

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Author:Emily Saliers