• It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.7 · 57 votes · 8 reads

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• It is not known precisely where angels dwell - whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  3.9 · 26 votes · 187 reads

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• It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  4.5 · 24 votes · 100 reads

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• It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  3.2 · 46 votes · 171 reads

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• It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.2 · 43 votes · 167 reads

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• It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.8 · 38 votes · 42 reads

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• It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

  

  Jane Austen

  NovelistEnglish1775 · 18th century

  5.0 · 35 votes · 38 reads

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• It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.

  

  William James

  PhilosopherAmerican1842 · 19th century

  3.2 · 14 votes · 155 reads

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• It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.3 · 6 votes · 37 reads

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• Its easy to be an angel when you are in heaven.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 50 votes · 174 reads

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• Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.

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  Peter Ustinov

  WriterBritish1921 · 20th century

  4.3 · 24 votes · 150 reads

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• Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

  

  Blaise Pascal

  PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century

  3.3 · 60 votes · 16 reads

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• Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

  

  John Lennon

  MusicianBritish1940 · 20th century

  4.1 · 58 votes · 156 reads

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• Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

  

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  TheologianSwiss1741 · 18th century

  3.1 · 29 votes · 37 reads

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• Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action - that the end will sanction any means.

  

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

  3.1 · 61 votes · 57 reads

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• Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.

  

  Jewish proverb

  Jewish

  4.4 · 11 votes · 124 reads

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• Man appoints, and God disappoints.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  4.0 · 9 votes · 99 reads

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• Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

  

  Albert Schweitzer

  TheologianGerman-French1875 · 19th century

  3.0 · 55 votes · 14 reads

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• Man does what he can, God does what he will.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.1 · 36 votes · 200 reads

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• Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  5.0 · 12 votes · 146 reads

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• Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  3.7 · 55 votes · 189 reads

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• Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.2 · 28 votes · 3 reads

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• Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.

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  Ezra Pound

  PoetAmerican1885 · 19th century

  3.9 · 33 votes · 53 reads

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• Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which

  

  Will Rogers

  ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

  3.3 · 9 votes · 66 reads

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• Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

  

  Blaise Pascal

  PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century

  4.7 · 31 votes · 183 reads

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• Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..

  

  Francis Picabia

  PainterFrench1879 · 19th century

  5.0 · 22 votes · 198 reads

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• Men must be governed by God, or they will be ruled by tyrants.

  

  William James

  PhilosopherAmerican1842 · 19th century

  4.5 · 13 votes · 87 reads

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• Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we sleep and when we awake.

  

  John Milton

  PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

  3.5 · 10 votes · 133 reads

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• Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

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  Fred A. Allen

  ComedianAmerican1894 · 19th century

  4.9 · 10 votes · 137 reads

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• My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world which are the three Abrahamic religions, Hinduism and Buddhism and Sikhism.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  4.4 · 15 votes · 182 reads

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• My own mind is my own church.

  

  Thomas Mann

  AuthorGerman1875 · 19th century

  4.7 · 53 votes · 108 reads

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• My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.4 · 44 votes · 2 reads

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• Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  3.3 · 64 votes · 135 reads

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• No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.

  

  W. H. Auden

  PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

  4.6 · 35 votes · 76 reads

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• Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.

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  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  PhilosopherAustrian1889 · 19th century

  5.0 · 21 votes · 103 reads

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• Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.1 · 25 votes · 103 reads

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• Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.

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  Louis Aragon

  PoetFrench1897 · 19th century

  3.3 · 26 votes · 112 reads

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• Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

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  Arnold Bennett

  NovelistEnglish1867 · 19th century

  4.5 · 7 votes · 114 reads

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• Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  3.8 · 32 votes · 81 reads

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• Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by dozens.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  4.2 · 56 votes · 151 reads

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• On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

  

  Jules Renard

  WriterFrench1864 · 19th century

  3.5 · 31 votes · 147 reads

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• One ABC of Christianity: ''Always Be Cheerful'' [1 Thessalonians 5:16]

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 15 votes · 163 reads

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• One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

  

  George Orwell

  NovelistBritish1903 · 20th century

  3.9 · 28 votes · 171 reads

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• One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

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  W. C. Fields

  ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.1 · 20 votes · 40 reads

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• One of the horrors of hell is the undying memory of a misspent life.

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 59 votes · 92 reads

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• Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as i

  

  James Joyce

  AuthorIrish1882 · 19th century

  3.2 · 17 votes · 38 reads

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• Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguis

  

  Charles Baudelaire

  PoetFrench1821 · 19th century

  3.6 · 46 votes · 197 reads

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• Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

  

  Hippocrates

  ScientistGreek-460 · 5th century BC

  4.7 · 24 votes · 16 reads

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• Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  3.2 · 23 votes · 175 reads

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• Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great

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  Matthew Arnold

  PoetBritish1822 · 19th century

  4.6 · 22 votes · 100 reads

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• Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

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  John Updike

  WriterAmerican1932 · 20th century

  3.6 · 49 votes · 90 reads

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• Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.

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  Georges Bizet

  MusicianFrench1838 · 19th century

  3.3 · 30 votes · 20 reads

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• Religion is like holding on to a rock in the middle of a raging river; faith is learning how to swim.

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  Anonymous

  3.7 · 39 votes · 106 reads

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• Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds.

  

  Stendhal

  NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

  3.1 · 29 votes · 200 reads

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• Religion is the opium of the masses.

  

  Karl Marx

  EconomistGerman1818 · 19th century

  3.6 · 48 votes · 64 reads

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• Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

  

  Karl Marx

  EconomistGerman1818 · 19th century

  3.4 · 39 votes · 152 reads

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• Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

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  Ezra Pound

  PoetAmerican1885 · 19th century

  4.8 · 37 votes · 167 reads

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• Religion! what treasure untold resides in that heavenly word!

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  William Butler Yeats

  PoetIrish1865 · 19th century

  3.4 · 38 votes · 115 reads

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• Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  4.0 · 52 votes · 71 reads

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• Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.9 · 48 votes · 167 reads

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• Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  3.8 · 16 votes · 121 reads

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• Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  3.6 · 38 votes · 91 reads

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• Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.

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  William Butler Yeats

  PoetIrish1865 · 19th century

  3.6 · 54 votes · 169 reads

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• Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

  

  Alan Turing

  MathematicianEnglish1912 · 20th century

  3.1 · 45 votes · 54 reads

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• Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.5 · 8 votes · 16 reads

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• She had once been a Catholic, but discovering that priests were infinitely more attentive when she was in process of losing or regaining faith in Mother Church, she maintained an enchantingly wavering attitude.

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 9 votes · 104 reads

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• She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.

  

  Thomas Alva Edison

  ScientistAmerican1847 · 19th century

  4.1 · 46 votes · 116 reads

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• Sign in lot: Church parking only. We will not forgive those who trespass against us.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 36 votes · 27 reads

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• Sink the Bible to the bottom of the sea, and man's obligation to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, only his compass and chart would be overboard.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  3.2 · 60 votes · 77 reads

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• Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  3.5 · 53 votes · 109 reads

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• Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  3.6 · 49 votes · 122 reads

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• Speak of the Devil and he appears.

  

  Italian proverb

  Italian

  3.7 · 59 votes · 109 reads

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• Speak the truth and shame the devil.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  5.0 · 37 votes · 181 reads

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• Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.

  

  C. S. Lewis

  AuthorIrish1898 · 19th century

  4.7 · 18 votes · 22 reads

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• That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.

  

  Will Rogers

  ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

  4.9 · 12 votes · 49 reads

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• The ''kingdom of Heaven'' is a condition of the heart -not something that comes ''upon the earth'' or ''after death.''

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.2 · 37 votes · 180 reads

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• The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

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  Ezra Pound

  PoetAmerican1885 · 19th century

  3.2 · 25 votes · 18 reads

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• The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.2 · 48 votes · 18 reads

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• The Angels were all singing out of tune, and hoarse with having little else to do, excepting to wind up the sun and moon or curb a runaway young star or two.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  4.1 · 23 votes · 17 reads

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• The atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by love is saved by his faith in the God whose existence

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 30 votes · 142 reads

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