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It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.

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That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw.

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You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

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But that is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.

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Wherever he found his speech growing too modern -- which was about every sentence or two -- he ladled in a few such Scriptural phrases as "exceeding s...more

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When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, i...more

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A God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a sing...more

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The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

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The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bittern...more

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Adam is fading out. It is on account of Darwin and that crowd. I can see that he is not going to last much longer. There's a plenty of signs. He is ge...more

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The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.