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Uttered Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- Name a moral statement or action, uttered or performed by a religious person that could not have been uttered or performed by an unbeliever.
- Here is my challenge. Name one ethical statement made, or one ethical action performed, by a believer that could not have been uttered or done…
- Martin is your best friend, isn't he?' a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us were present: it was the only time…
- The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing or…
- The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just the wrong explanation,…
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- A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. — Saint Augustine
- Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and… — Henry Ward Beecher
- God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them. — Edward McKendree Bounds
- God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them may be closed to death, the heart that… — Edward McKendree Bounds
- It is not necessary to maintain a conversation when we are in the presence of God. We can come into His presence… — Ole Hallesby
- Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect… — Ole Hallesby
- What prayer could be more true before God the Father than that which the Son, who is Truth, uttered with His own… — Saint John Chrysostom
- When a man has found the Lord, he no longer has to use words when he is praying, for the Spirit Himself… — John Climacus