Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
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Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.William Ralph Inge
Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
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We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
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To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
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A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
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Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
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