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All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths that come on high and are contained in the sacred writings.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

John Wesley said that if you give up the witchcraft, you must give up the Bible. He is right. The choice is easy for me.

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.

It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.

Life is a tightrope with God at the end. If we walk with our eyes down, looking at what is happening right now in our lives, we are likely to waver and fall. However, if we focus at the end of the rope, where God and Heaven await us, we can see past all of the petty troubles this present life and walk more steadily. We may sometimes still stumble, but if we get back up and train our eyes on God once again, He will guide us to the end.

All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.

Fellowship with God means warfare with the world.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.

The difference between heresy and prophecy is often one of sequence. Heresy often turns out to have been prophecy -- when properly aged.

Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them.

The prevailing legal and moral views of a time are held not only by those whom they benefit but by those, too, who appear to suffer from them. Their domination is expressed in that fact- that the people from whom they claim sacrifice accept them.

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.