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You can't expect anyone to trust revelation if he hasn't experienced it himself. Those who haven't only know reason. And since revelation is a thing apart, and cannot be accounted for reasonably, they never will believe you. This is the great division of the world and always has been. When reason and revelation run together, why, then you have something great, a great age. Mark Helprin
There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there. Paulo Coelho
As scientific truths put us in an intelligent relaton with the cosmos, as historic truth puts us in temporal relation with the rise and fall of civilization, so does Christ put us in intelligent relation with God the Father; for He is the only possible Word by which God can address Himself to a world of sinners. Fulton J. Sheen
Dwight L. Moody quote: "No one can sum up all God is able to accomplish through one..."
No one can sum up all God is able to accomplish through one solitary life, wholly yielded, adjusted, and obedient to Him. Dwight L. Moody
Now we cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say there will always be at the back of our minds the idea that if we try harder next time we shall succeed in being completely good. Thus, in one sense, the road back to God is a road of moral effort, of trying harder and harder. But in another sense it is not trying that is ever going tobring us home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at... C. S. Lewis
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. Isaac Asimov
Frank Herbert quote: "They are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know...."
They are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous. Frank Herbert
Anne Lamott quote: "God can't clean the house of you when you're still in it."
God can't clean the house of you when you're still in it. Anne Lamott
Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferociousdefence? One might have supposed him amply capable of lookingafter himself. Richard Dawkins
Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it. C. S. Lewis
I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid. Dorothy L. Sayers
As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her. Anne Rice
Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me! Stephen King
William S. Burroughs quote: "Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns..."
Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death. William S. Burroughs

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