![The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity and simplicity of it's benevolent institutor, is a religion of all others most friendly to liberty, science, and the freest expansion of the human mind.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-christian-religion-when-divested-of-the-rags-in-which-they-the-clergy-have.jpg)
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prepare Christian men and women who will lead our nation and shape our culture with timeless biblical values and fidelity to the spirit of the American founding. O. Henry
christian fear dying
The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying. Augustus Hare
christian hollywood not-sure
I'm not sure that I would have become a Christian if I had continued to live in Hollywood because the notion wouldn't have occurred to me. Jane Fonda
christian heart trying
I try to put my heart out there to everybody. They don't have to be Christian. For example, I have lots of Jewish readers. I love my Jewish readers. Jan Karon
christian soul unity
As image and apprehension are in organic unity, so, for a Christian, are human body and human soul. C. S. Lewis
christian men community
God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians.
christian jesus believe
Q. What is your view of the daily discipline of the Christian life - the need for taking time to be alone with God? Lewis: "We have our New Testament regimental orders upon the subject. I would take it for granted that everyone who becomes a Christian would undertake this practice. It is enjoined upon us by Our Lord; and since they are his commands, I believe in following them. It is always just possible that Jesus Christ meant what he said when He told us to seek the secret place and to close the door.
christian mean people
Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.
christian thinking brain
God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers. If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you you are embarking on something which is going to take the whole of you, brains and all ...
simplicity value
I value simplicity over everything; I always look for simplicity. Anders Hejlsberg
simplicity consistency complicated
History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency. Jared Diamond
simplicity different kind
A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability. Albert Einstein
simplicity phrases depth
Thomas Teal, a luminous translator of Jansson's twin talent for surface and depth, simplicity and reverberation in language, and someone who knows exactly how to convey her gift for sensing the meaning embedded in the most mundane act or turn of phrase. Ali Smith
simplicity paper written
This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
simplicity computer pure
The future of computer power is pure simplicity. Douglas Adams
simplicity facts may
Certain environments, certain modes of life, and certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification is one of them. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
simplicity clutter complication
For the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication.
simplicity mind demand
In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science. Simon Greenleaf
mind money
Sometimes your mind lets you do things with your money that make no sense. Suze Orman
mind quite wayne williams
Quite frankly, I don't think Wayne Williams is responsible for anything, ... I don't think he did anything. I made up my mind with that 20 years ago, and I still feel that way. Louis Graham
mind shot
That shot he's got to obliterate from his mind a little bit.
mind stories
A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind. Brandon Sanderson
mind body limits
Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action. Baruch Spinoza
mind neighborhood unsafe
your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone. Augusten Burroughs
mind
You manufacture beauty with your mind
mind intellectual skins
The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers. Benjamin Banneker
mind levels joyful
The greater the level of calmness of our mind, the greater our peace of mind, the greater our ability to enjoy a happy and joyful life. Dalai Lama