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With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low antiquity of the…

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Shall it any longer be said that a science [geology], which unfolds such abundant evidence of the Being and Attributes of God,…
Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them,…
Geology holds the keys of one of the kingdoms of nature; and it cannot be said that a science which extends our…
It is demonstrable from Geology that there was a period when no organic beings had existence: these organic beings must therefore have…
The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the…
The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar:…
The successive series of stratified formations are piled on one another, almost like courses of masonry.
With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low…
Thus the great drama of universal life is perpetually sustained; and though the individual actors undergo continual change, the same parts are…
To the mind which looks not to general results in the economy of Nature, the earth may seem to present a scene…
The days of the Mosaic creation are not to be strictly construed as implying the same length of time which is at…
No conclusion is more fully established, than the important fact of the total absence of any vestiges of the human species throughout…

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of… — Theodor Adorno
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history. — Isaac Newton
Now the images and temples constructed by mechanics are made of inert matter, so that they too are inert, material, and profane.… — Clement of Alexandria
None of us like the concept of law because none of us like the restraints it puts on us. But when we… — Ravi Zacharias
The teacher should make a concerted effort never to lose his temper in the presence of the class. If a man, he… — William Lyon Phelps
With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low… — William Buckland
The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a conductor into… — Christian Friedrich Schonbein
The important question has nothing to do with whether the talk in your story is sacred or profane; the only question is… — Stephen King
Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane. — St. Jerome
But if out of smugness, or even cowardice, this battle is not fought to its end, then take a look at the… — Adolf Hitler
It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves. — Meir Kahane
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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