When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected ‘I believe’ to ‘one does feel’.
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God’s love and the love of God.
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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