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• It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of…
• A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
• Knox was engaged in a theological discussion with scientist John Scott Haldane. 'In a universe containing millions of planets,' reasoned Haldane, 'is…
• All men who have ideals . . . live by some kind of faith, by committing themselves to some kind of loyalty…
• Only man had dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.
• The study of comparative religions is the best way to become comparatively religious.
• The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy.
• The great argument used now against any theological proposition is not, that it is untrue, or unthinkable, or unedifying, or unscriptural, or…
• When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.
• Always tell the truth, and people will never believe you.
• O God, for as much as without Thee We are not enabled to doubt Thee, Help us all by Thy grace To…
• Long before I had ever seen a ritualistic service I became a Ritualist.

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