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atheist criterion success
Robert Lewis It is only the atheist who adopts success as the criterion of right
atheist became hated seemed time
Julia Sweeney I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read, it started to stick.
atheist kids interesting
Richard P. Feynman In those days, in Far Rockaway, there was a youth center for Jewish kids at the temple.... Somebody nominated me for president of the youth center. The elders began getting nervous, because I was an avowed atheist by that time.... I thought nature itself was so interesting that I didn't want it distorted like that. And so I gradually came to disbelieve the whole religion.
atheist drama struggle
Richard P. Feynman It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.
atheist philosophy atheism
Richard K. Morgan A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.
atheist understanding religion
Richard Dawkins Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.
atheist believe religion
Richard Dawkins Everybody is an atheist in saying that there is a god - from Ra to Shiva - in which he does not believe. All that the serious and objective atheist does is to take the next step and to say that there is just one more god to disbelieve in.
atheist powerful islands
Richard Dawkins Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the appropriate pattern to suggest, irresistibly, that they had evolved and dispersed from the site of their evolution?
people may medical
Charles Caleb Colton It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
people next cleanliness
Charles Dickens Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
people scary alive
Charles Dickens I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
people enemy
Charles Dickens Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
people missionary christianity
Charles Studd Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.
people littles controversy
Charles Stross In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.
people church opinion
Charles Stanley I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.
people waiting lord
Charles Spurgeon The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.
people sin made
Charles Spurgeon People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.
church moments despise
Charles Spurgeon The moment the church of God shall despise the pulpit, God will despise her.
church heirlooms persecution
Charles Spurgeon Persecution is the heirloom of the church, and the ensign of the elect.
church doctrine traps
Charles Spurgeon The doctrines some now preach could not build a mouse-trap.
church would-be doing-good
Charles Spurgeon The most useful members of a church are usually those who would be doing harm if they were not doing good.
church conviction repentance
Aiden Wilson Tozer What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power?
church attention pay
Aiden Wilson Tozer Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange!
church done today
Aiden Wilson Tozer In the conduct of our public worship where is the authority of Christ to be found? The truth is that today the Lord rarely controls a service, and the influence He exerts is very small. We sing of Him and preach about Him, but He must not interfere; we worship our way, and it must be right because we have always done it that way, as have the other churches in our group.
church watches praying
Aiden Wilson Tozer The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.
church stronger gains
Aiden Wilson Tozer The body becomes stronger as its members become healthier. The whole church of God gains when the members that compose it begin to seek a better and a higher life.