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religion whole department
Alan Watts Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.
religion ordinary deities
Edward Gibbon Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity.
religion atheism might
Edward Gibbon The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that he has suppressed all that could tend to the disgrace, of religion.
religion said wells
Kurt Vonnegut What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.
religion baths doe
Billy Sunday They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.
religion battle faces
Bertrand Russell No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle.
religion christianity know-yourself
C. S. Lewis In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.
religion atheism humanist
Charles M. Schulz The term that best describes me now is 'secular humanist.'
wish contempt
William Shakespeare What our contempts do often hurl from us, We wish it ours again.
wish world sun
William Shakespeare I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.
wish might matter
Madeleine Albright No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.
wish gum enough
C. S. Lewis By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!
wish invisible
C. S. Lewis And there we all were, as invisible as you could wish to see.
wish leisure wit
C. S. Lewis if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.
wish use type
Alan Ladd I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing
wish here-and-now enjoy
Cheri Huber When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.
wish facts shy
Charlotte Gainsbourg I wish I could just accept that I'm not that good and not be shy about the fact that I'm not that professional.
atheism three wealth
Charles Caleb Colton The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power.
atheism divine sovereignty
Charles Spurgeon Opposition to divine sovereignty is essentially atheism.
atheism today socialism
August Bebel We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.
atheism movement goes-on
Charlotte Perkins Gilman The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged "truth" which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought.
atheism affirmation made
Charles Bradlaugh Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made.
atheism doe without-god
Charles Bradlaugh Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God.
atheism form mere
Charles Bradlaugh A mere society form of Atheism.
atheism gains miserable
Charles Bradlaugh Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them?
atheism reign professors
William Shakespeare I always thought it was both impious and unnatural that such immanity and bloody strife should reign among professors of one faith.