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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

My route, Sior Francis—and don't be surprised when you hear it—my route when I set out to find God.....

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Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first presi...

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The stakes in this game are not low. Our enterprise is no less than the introduction of an alternati...

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Very well. He'd lighten up. As a matter of fact, he felt as light as the bubbly froth that flew from...

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Tom RobbinsJitterbug Perfume

It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to ...

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The two of them kept an eye open for every tree or temple we passed by, and turned to me for a react...

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Aravind AdigaThe White Tiger

Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosoph...

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The forces of piety have always and everywhere been the sworn enemy of the open mind and the open bo...

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Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

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Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

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Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

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Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

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Limerick gained a reputation for piety, but we knew it was only the rain.

e have men sold to build churches, women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to purchase Bibl...

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Frederick DouglassNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Belief must be something different from a mixture of opinions about God and the world, and of precep...

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Friedrich SchleiermacherOn Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers

He was very religious he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing g...

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Jorge Luis BorgesThe Aleph and Other Stories

Faith is never identical with piety.