“It is sometimes said that conduct is supremely important and worship helps it. The truth is that worship is supremely important and conduct tests it” SaidImportantSometimesHelpingTruth IsWorshipTests Author:William Temple
“It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A really civilized man, a really civilized woman, must hold such a God in abhorrence and contempt... In the New Testament, death is not the end, but the beginning of punishment that has no end. In the New Testament the malice of God is infinite and the hunger of his revenge eternal... This frightful dogma, this infinite lie, made me the implacable enemy of Christianity. The truth is that this belief in eternal pain has been the real persecutor.” MenHas BeensMadeRealEndsSeemsPainLyingBeliefChristianityEnemyImpossibleTruth IsEternalWorshipInfiniteHungerRevengePunishmentCivilizedContemptDogmaTestamentNew TestamentMaliceOld TestamentAbhorrence Author:Robert Green Ingersoll
“It is equally vain,” she thought, “for you to think you can protect me, or for me to think I can worship you. The light of truth beats upon us without shadow, and the light of truth is damnably unbecoming to us both.” ThinkingI CanLightTruth IsProtectWorshipBeatsShadowVainUnbecomingWorship You Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf