![No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men will submit themselves to torture and to death, mothers will immolate [burn] their children at the bidding of beliefs they thus accept.](/assets/img/quote-photos/no-theory-is-too-false-no-fable-too-absurd-no-superstition-too-degrading-for-ac.jpg)
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We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others. Matthew Simpson
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Therefore, when some say good works are forbidden when we preach faith alone, it is as if I said to a sick man: If you had health, you would have the use of your limbs; but without health the works of your limbs are nothing and he wanted to infer that I had forbidden the works of all his limbs. Martin Luther
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My hope, my real hope, is that whatever you hold in your heart, whatever you truly believe, and you've put your faith in, that that's what 's waiting for you. I think that'd be wonderful. You know what I mean? I think that would be the culmination of the life of the devout, or the believer. Joe Carnahan
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Never lie to your mother. That's like the biggest lesson that I learned, learned throughout my life, you know? Bristol Palin
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My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colorful character and a keen reader who encouraged me to write. Alexander McCall Smith
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I didn't have any qualms. I'm used to taking my clothes off in front of strangers. I've done it since I was 14 - with my mother's adult education art classes. She liked to paint and I went along as a life model. Alex Kingston
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Fathers and Mothers! Honor your children and love them. Otto Rank
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Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
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