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«It is easy to become a monk in one's old age»
Author: Ethiopian Proverb | About: Religion | Keywords: monk
«It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.»
«It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion»
«It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside»
«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»
«It is one of our perennial problems, whether there is actually a God. From the Hindu point of view each soul is divine. All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call. Just as cinematic images appear to be real but are only combinations of light and shade, so is the universal variety a delusion. The planetary spheres, with their countless forms of life, are naught but figures in a cosmic motion picture. One's values are profoundly changed when he is finally convinced that creation is only a vast motion picture and that not in, but beyond, lies his own ultimate reality.»
«It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity.»
«It is quite possible that we can do greater things than Jesus, for what is written in the Bible about him is poetically embellished»
«It is better to have no opinion of God at all than such as one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only unbelief - the other is contempt»
«It is far better that we admitted a thousand devils to roam at large than that we permitted one such impostor and monster as Moses, Joshua, Samuel, and the Bible prophets, to come with the pretended word of God and have credit among us»