“Not every idea to which some persecutor appeals is, of course, automatically suspect. But when a religious doctrine appears consistently (and over a long period of time) to have destructive effects in the lives of those who accept it, then we have a prima facie reason, surely, to question its soundness. For as Jesus said, “A sound tree cannot [consistently and over a long period of time] bear evil fruit.”
― The Inescapable Love of God
― The Inescapable Love of God
“A playful humanity radiated from him, the result of that powerfullest of all restoratives�-giving of what one has to him who has not.”
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“Had Alec then seen his own face, he would have seen upon it the sneer that he hated so upon that of Beauchamp. For all wickedness tends to destroy individuality, and declining natures assimilate as they sink.”
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“Death is not a breaker but a renewer of ties. And if in view of death we gird up the loins of our minds, and unite our hearts into a whole of love, and tenderness, and atonement, and forgiveness, then Death himself cannot be that thing of forlornness and loss.”
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“The warst bank that a man can lay up his siller in is his ain hert.”
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