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If, after a rigid examination, it be found an imposition, it should be extensively published to the world as such; the evidences…
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Convince us of our errors of doctrine, if we have any, by reason, by logical arguments, or by the Word of God,…
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This law of monogamy, or the monogamic system, laid the foundation for prostitution and the evils and diseases of the most revolting…
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Baptism is just as essential to salvation, as Faith and Repentance. Without being immersed in water no man can enter into the…
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It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate…
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The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.
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The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist…
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Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space.
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All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the…
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An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote…
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Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct…
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At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his…
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience;…
— William Hazlitt
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The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it…
— Samuel Johnson
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Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If, after a rigid examination, it be found an imposition, it should be extensively published to the world as such; the evidences…
— Orson Pratt
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A peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying…
— Eric Hoffer
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I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad…
— Stephen Spender
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I am perfectly convinced that I have both seen, and heard in a manner which should make unbelief impossible, things called spiritual…
— Augustus De Morgan
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All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.
— Samuel Johnson
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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These are no ordinary claims; and it seems hardly possible for a rational being to regard them with even a subdued interest;…
— Simon Greenleaf
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For power can guarantee the interests of some men but it can never foster the good of man. Power always protects the…
— Thomas Merton
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Affected simplicity is an elegant imposture.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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