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It was pitiful for a person born in a wholesome free atmosphere to listen to their humble and hearty outpourings of loyalty toward their king and Chur...more

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The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

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The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bittern...more

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Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.

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Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal t...more

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A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.

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In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities wh...more

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Adam is fading out. It is on account of Darwin and that crowd. I can see that he is not going to last much longer. There's a plenty of signs. He is ge...more

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The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

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It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss abou...more

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Heaven goes by favor if it went by merit you would stay out and your dog would go in.

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the pr...more

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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me it's the parts that I do understand.

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Satan must have been pretty simple, even according to the New Testament, or he wouldn't have led Christ up on a high mountain and offered him the worl...more

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Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.