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I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
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I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Such was the will of the Father that his Son, blessed and glorious, whom he gave to us, and who was born for us, should by his own blood, sacrifice, and oblation, offer himself on the altar of the cross, not for himself, by whom "all things were made," but for our sins, leaving us an example that we should follow his steps.
My own experience but confirms the opinion that the Musalman as a rule is a bully, and the Hindu as rule is a coward.
We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures; we are the sum of the Father's love for us and our real capacity to become the image of his Son.
I always tell my Western friends that it is best to keep your own tradition. Changing religion is not easy and sometimes causes confusion. You must value your tradition and honor your own religion.
A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than that of a person who is born in it.
What happens someday if more people own my record than the bible? That will make me God because a lot more people believe in me than him? Because itsjust about popularity. Ther are plenty of people in the world how have never heard of jesus, while America takes him for granted. The key is to change what is popular. That's why rather than submit to to the mainstream, you have to become it, then over come it.
True instruction is this: to learn to wish that each thing should come to pass as it does. And how does it come to pass? As the Disposer has disposed it. Now He has disposed that there should be summer and winter, and plenty and dearth, and vice and virtue, and all such opposites, for the harmony of the whole.
Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
Hopefully, I'll be remembered as the person who brought an end to Christianity.