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christian given property religion wish
Religion I have disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give to them, and that is the Christian religion. If they had that and I had not given them one cent, they would be rich. If they have not that, and I had given them the world, they would be poor. O. Henry
christian understanding together
It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding. Bede Griffiths
christian django play
Charlie Christian had no more impact on my playing than Django Reinhardt or Lonnie Johnson. I just wanted to play like him. I wanted to play like all of them. All of these people were important to me. I couldn't play like any of them, though ... B. B. King
christian thinking light
I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light. Billy Corgan
christian law marriage-equality
I'm a Christian and a supporter of marriage equality under the law. Bill Shorten
christian years guy
It’s the only call…To have Christian Ponder as your third quarterback, a guy who started for you a year, to me it made it an easy call because you have a veteran guy who has played in this atmosphere before. Bill Cowher
christian misunderstood should
I'm a Christian. But Muslims are misunderstood. Intentionally misunderstood. We should all be more like them. Bill Cosby
christian hypocrisy people
If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention? C. S. Lewis
christian brain endeavor
Anyone who endeavors to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened. You are embarking on something that is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.
atheist felt love rebel though worst
Rebel and Atheist too, why murmur I, / As though I felt the worst that love could do? John Donne
atheist rejection challenges
Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore inadequate. Atheism is a challenge to religion to purifiy its images and concepts and come nearer to the truth of divine mystery.
atheist claims inference
A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.
atheist real believe
Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
atheist people opiates
Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.
atheist reading men
In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere — "Bibles laid open, millions of surprises," as Herbert says, "fine nets and stratagems." God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.
atheist reading men
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
atheist men different
I am an atheist. I have a very different take on who God is. Man invented God because he needed him. God is us. Carl Reiner
atheist pseudoscience difficult
At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion. Carl Sagan
rights secure supported
Rights are most secure when they are supported by legislative enactment, Jack Balkin
rights desire identity
Sexual and reproductive health and rights are universal human rights!They are an indivisible part of the broader human rights and development equation. Their particular power resides in the fact that they deal with the most intimate aspects of our identities as individuals and enable human dignity, which is dependent on control of our bodies, desires and aspirations. Babatunde Osotimehin
rights order liberty
What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights. B. R. Ambedkar
rights uzbekistan decision
If we're going to preach about democracy we're going to have to make difficult decisions. We're not going to sell our values out for basing rights, particularly when (Defense) Secretary (Donald) Rumsfeld himself noted that there were options to the base in Uzbekistan Bill Delahunt
rights law walking-away
George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions. Bianca Jagger
rights years lasts
I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.
rights our-world law
There is so much each one of us can do to make a difference. We are at a dangerous juncture in the history of mankind. ... We need to defend our principles and values, human rights, civil liberties and the rule of international law. If we don't our world will further descend into a state of chaos.
rights truth-is individual
One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live. Bertha von Suttner
rights mind church
The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of mind - each convinced that it alone had a monopoly on the truth and therefore eager for the state to impose this truth on others.