Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, and the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains |
That church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves; |
The Bible was written by barbarians in a barbarous, coarse and vulgar age |
The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who wished to reform it, and one who built a system of his own |
The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down. |
The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know |
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free. |
The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either 'explained,' or allowed to take refuge behind the mistakes of the translators, or hide in the drapery of allegory |
The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man to govern others |
The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not |
The great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitted whatever tended to discredit the church, and that he piously magnified all that conduced to her glory |
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. |
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. |
The hands that help are better far than the lips that pray |
The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray |