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| It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever its true meaning is understood. But I believe nobody will deny that it is often very abstruse, and may say things which are quite different from wha |
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| It is written, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God |
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| It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him. |
| Arthur C. Clarke |
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| Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live (John 11:25). |
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| Keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate and whatever good you send before for yourselves, you shall find it with Allah; surely Allah sees what you do. (The Cow 2.110) |
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| Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness. (Psalms 52:7) |
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| Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief |
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| Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives |
| Blaise Pascal |
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| Make a joyful noise unto the Lord |
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| Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about. (Psalms 32:10) |
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| Marvel not at the works of sinners; but trust in the Lord, and abide in thy labour: for it is an easy thing in the sight of the Lord on the sudden to make a poor man rich. |
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| Men whom neither merchandise nor selling diverts from the remembrance of Allah and the keeping up of prayer and the giving of poor-rate; they fear a day in which the hearts and eyes shall turn about. (The Light 24.37) |
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| Moses said to the Lord, "The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, because you yourself warned us, 'Put limits around the mountain and set it apart as holy |
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| Most people have some sort of religion, at least they know which church they're staying away from |
| John Erskine |
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| My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. |
| George Santayana |
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| My childhood was full of deep sorrows -- colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake. |
| George Eliot |
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| My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature |
| Albert Einstein |
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