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Hell is wherever Love is not, and Heaven
Is Love’s location.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox1850–1919The Way (1913).
- Love
Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.
Charles Spurgeon1834–1892Gleanings Among the Sheaves (New York: Sheldon and Company, 1869), “Holiness”, p. 73
- Christianity
- God
For the true mystic the principle continues to hold: the creature must be silent so that God may speak.
Max Weber1864–1920Max Weber, The Rejection of the World and Theodicy, 1916.
- God
In any case Pakistan is not going to be a theocratic State to be ruled by priests with a divine mission.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah1876–1948Broadcast to the people of the United States of America on Pakistan (February 1948)
- Government
An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899Some Mistakes of Moses (1879) Section III, “The Politicians”.
One cannot now say, the priest is as the people, for the truth is that the people are not so bad as the priest.
Bernard of Clairvaux1090–1153In Conversione S. Pauli, Sermon 1, sect. 3; translation by James Spedding, in The Works of Francis Bacon (1860) vol. 12, p. 134
- Clever Jabs
The atheist who affects to reason, and the fanatic who rejects reason, plunge themselves alike into inextricable difficulties.
Thomas Paine1737–1809Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)
- Atheism
In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936The Defendant (1901), “Introduction”
The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer1906–1945The Cost of Discipleship (1937), “Revenge”, p. 141
No society is immune from the darkest impulses of man. And too often religion has been used to tap into those darker impulses as opposed to the light of God.
Barack Obamaborn 1961Address to the People of India (January 2015)
He asked my religion and I replied ‘agnostic’. He asked how to spell it, and remarked with a sigh: ‘Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God.’
Bertrand Russell1872–1970The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (1967-1969)
- Comedy
When holy scripture speaks of following Jesus, it proclaims that people are free from all human rules, from everything which presumes, burdens, or causes worry and torment of conscience.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer1906–1945Discipleship (1937), Preface, tr. Barbara Green and Reinhard Krauss (2001)
- Christianity
- Freedom
My opinion concerning God differs widely from that which is ordinarily defended by modern Christians. For I hold that God is of all things the cause immanent, as the phrase is, not transient.
Baruch Spinoza1632–1677Letter 21 (73) to Henry Oldenburg , November (1675)
- Christianity
- God
The negro worked and took his pay in religion and the lash.
Frederick Douglass1817–1895Our Composite Nationality (1869)
- Slavery
Caesar and Christ had met in the arena, and Christ had won.
Will Durant1885–1981III—Caesar and Christ (1944), Chapter 30, part 1, p. 652
- Christianity
- History