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Man's true end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him for ever.
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Man's true end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him for ever.
I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isn't true.
I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural.
I'd be more willing to accept religion, even if I didn't believe it, if I thought it made people nicer to each other but I don't think it does.
Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
Don't kneel to me, that is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank him for the liberty you will hereafter enjoy. I am but God's humble instrument; but you may rest assured that as long as I live no one shall put a shackle on your limbs; and you shall have all the rights which God has given to every other free citizen of this republic.
And whereas it is fit and becoming in all people, at all times, to acknowledge and revere the Supreme Government of God; to bow in humble submission to his chastisements; to confess and deplore their sins and transgressions in the full conviction that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; and to pray, with all fervency and contrition, for the pardon of their past offences, and for a blessing upon their present and prospective action.
And now, let's start this journey. [...] A journey of brotherhood, of love, of faith among us. Let's always pray for ourselves: one for the other. Let's pray for the whole world, so that there may be a great brotherhood.
Dear girl, don't feel badly of what I am about to tell you; only think that certain times life has cruel needs and one must submit oneself.