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Live life to it's fullest, love wastefully, and be all we can be.
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When the dust settles and the pages of history are written, it will not be the angry defenders of intolerance who have…
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The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.
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The miracle stories of the New Testament can no longer be interpreted in a post-Newtonian world as supernatural events performed by an…
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The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts…
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Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way.
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The hope for life after death must be separated forever from the behavior control mentality of reward and punishment. The Church must…
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If the resurrection of Jesus cannot be believed except by assenting to the fantastic descriptions included in the Gospels, then Christianity is…
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The right to a good death is a basic human freedom. The [2006-JAN] Supreme Court's decision to uphold aid in dying allows…
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The great danger... in believing yourself especially chosen is that it becomes easy to view those who are not your people as…
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All human beings bear God's image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore, no external description of one's being,…
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Paul's words are not the Words of God. They are the words of Paul- a vast difference.
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Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
— Josh Billings
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It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their conviction. I wish I could teach the sad young of…
— John Ciardi
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Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.
— Josh Billings
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Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
— Barbara Tuchman
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If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth; but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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How much wilderness do the wilderness-lovers want? ask those who would mine and dig and cut and dam in such sanctuary spots…
— Wallace Stegner
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Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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It is easy enough to say, I do not believe in God. For God permits all things to be said of Him…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons…
— Georges Bernanos
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It is easy enough to tell the poor to accept their poverty as Gods will when you yourself have warm clothes and…
— Thomas Merton
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The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough…
— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
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