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Letter "R" » Religion
«The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Christianity,
Religion
| Keywords:
attended, Christian religion, reasonable, reasonable person, The Christian
«The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.»
Author: John Locke
(Philosopher)
| About:
Action,
Evil,
Religion
| Keywords:
dread, forcible, prospect
«The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.»
«The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but of taking care of the bodies as well as the souls of people; not an affair of belief and of faith and of professions, but an affair of doing good, and especially to those who are in want; not an affair of fire and brimstone, but an affair of bacon and read, beer and a bed.»
Author: William Cobbett
| About:
Christianity,
Religion
| Keywords:
affair, bacon, brimstone, Christian faith, Christian religion, fire and brimstone, prate, prating, preaching, professions, rant, ranting
«The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of mattress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.»
«The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.»
Author: Joseph Joubert
(Essayist)
| About:
Books,
Catholicism,
Religion
| Keywords:
Book of, Great Books, remained, righteously
«The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example»
«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 book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief of this is called blasphemy»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
blasphemies, blasphemy, decreed, decreeing, disbelief, Laws, the book, The Word, voted, Word of God
«The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Evil,
Religion
| Keywords:
cite, cited, citing, scripture
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