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Does he say novenas for those with no venus .

If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers.

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be: But when he got well, a wolf once more was he.

Treat others as thou wouldn't be treated. What thou likest not for thyself, dispense not to others.

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by refusing to acknowledge the facts.

...the ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs.

The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of the time is always determined by the views on which the opposing schools agree. They become the unspoken presuppositions of all thought, and common and unquestioningly accepted foundations on which all discussion proceeds.

At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history. To human nature , in a universe , after a history , the rules of the code apply.

A man often preaches his beliefs precisely when he has lost them and is looking everywhere for them, and, on such occasions, his preaching is by no means at its worst.

Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs.

Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying.

Various kinds of ideas can be classified by their relationship to the authentication process. There are ideas systematically prepared for authentication , ideas not derived from any systematic process , ideas which could not survive any reasonable authentication process , ideas which exempt themselves from any authentication process , ideas which have already passed authentication processes , as well as ideas known to have failed- or certain to fail- such processes .

If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.

With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.

Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.

The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.

The neer to the church, the further from God.

Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.