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bible calculated fifteen minutes twice
Someone has calculated that in fifteen minutes a day we can read the Bible through twice in a year's time. Source Unknown
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It's more blessed to give than to receive -- especially kittens. Bill Cosby
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All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks the Gospels are either legends or novels, then that person is simply showing his incompetence as a literary critic. I've read a great many novels and I know a fair amount about the legends that grew up among early people, and I know perfectly well the Gospels are not that kind of stuff. C. S. Lewis
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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion... Benjamin Rush
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By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published. Benjamin Rush
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The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments. Benjamin Rush
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Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education. Benjamin Rush
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The astonishing thing is that people can become religious without being converted. That is, they join churches and start reading the Bible and doing religious things with no change in the foundation of their happiness: It is still themselves. They are the ground of their joy. John Piper
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I watch him every Saturday on TV, and I get so nervous for him, ... He calls me before and after games to see how I do and to wish me luck. We both pray for each other and send each other Bible verses. Kelly Quinn
religion
Organized belief in spirituality - that's what a religion is. Mario Cuomo
religion
Religion is a way of walking, not a way of talking. R. Inge
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Religion is like a map. The route isn't important. It's the destination that matters. Marianne Williamson
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If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him. C. S. Lewis
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Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed. C. S. Lewis
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A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics and chemistry. Carl Sagan
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Where did God come from? If we decide this is an unanswerable question why not save a step and conclude that the origin of the universe is an unanswerable question. Carl Sagan
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[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion. Carl Sagan
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... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness. Bernadette Devlin
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What makes a free thinker is not his beliefs, but the way in which he holds them. If he holds them because his elders told him they were true when he was young, or if he holds them because if he did not he would be unhappy, his thought is not free; but if he holds them because, after careful thought, he finds a balance in their favor, then his thought is free, however odd his conclusions may seem. Bertrand Russell
atheism speak precaution
It is permissible with certain precautions to speak in print of coitus, but it is not permissible to employ the monosyllabic synonym for this word. Bertrand Russell
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Disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last it was complete. Charles Darwin
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It is like confessing to a murder. Charles Darwin
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The question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of the highest intellects that have ever existed. Charles Darwin
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Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice. Charles Spurgeon
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... reason accepts no commandments. Ayn Rand
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Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself. Bertrand Russell
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God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous C. S. Lewis