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If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks, and mice,…
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When we are going to enter the water ... in the presence of the congregation and under the hand of the president,…
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In pain shall you bring forth children, woman, and you shall turn to your husband and he shall rule over you. And…
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He has inhibited discussion by designating admonition as the method of dealing with a heretic- and the first method, too, because he…
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Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your…
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Enoch predicted that "the demons and the spirits of the angelic apostates would turn into idolatry all the elements, all the adornment…
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Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in…
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For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.
— Aeschylus
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The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to…
— Baruch Spinoza
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The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of Man over…
— Robert Boyle
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Away with tears and fears and troubles! United in wedlock with the eternal Godhead Itself, our nature ascends into the Heaven of…
— C.S. Lewis
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The true religion, it is said, is service to mankind; but this service seems to take the form of securing for him…
— Richard M. Weaver
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It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does…
— Saint Basil
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If you are proud of your descent from virtuous ancestors, how empty their virtue will leave your hands if you yourself are…
— Ibn Hazm
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