“When earth breaks up and heaven expands, how will the change strike me and you in the house not made with hands?”
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“When earth breaks up and heaven expands, how will the change strike me and you in the house not made with hands?”
“In the first is the last, in thy will is my power to believe”
“Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ”
“Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments”
“There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God”
“Christianity is not only confirmed by miracles, but is in itself, in its very essence, a miraculous religion”
“I affirm, and would maintain, that true religion consists in proposing, as our great end, a growing likeness to the supreme being”
“Conscience is an oracle of the divinity”
“Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried”
“Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair”
“There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only ''instinct'' I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as ''the sin of avarice"”
“Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further”
“I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is”
“It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing”
“Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense”
“The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men.- It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter.- It is all pure.”
“Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.”
“Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion”
“When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it, he keeps a very small stock of it within”
“If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back”