William Jennings Bryan on assumption
William Jennings Bryan77 quotes“Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.”
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The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
William Jennings BryanWilliam Jennings Bryan The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.
William Jennings BryanWilliam Jennings Bryan I have been so satisfied with the Christian religion that I have spent no time trying to find arguments against it. I am not afraid now that you will show me any. I feel that I have enough information to live and die by.
William Jennings BryanWilliam Jennings Bryan Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
William Jennings BryanWilliam Jennings Bryan Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.
William Jennings BryanWilliam Jennings Bryan My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
William Jennings BryanWilliam Jennings Bryan If there is no God there is no hereafter. When, therefore, one drives God out of the universe he closes the door of hope upon himself.
William Jennings BryanWilliam Jennings Bryan An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
William Jennings BryanWilliam Jennings Bryan All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis.
William Jennings BryanWilliam Jennings Bryan If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.
William Jennings BryanWilliam Jennings Bryan If we steal a man’s purse we are thieves. If we steal twelve hundred islands we are patriots. If you steal a man’s money you will be sent to the penitentiary. If you steal his liberty you will be sent to the White House.
William Jennings BryanWilliam Jennings Bryan If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.
William Jennings BryanWilliam Jennings Bryan There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.
William Jennings BryanWilliam Jennings Bryan We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
William Jennings BryanWilliam Jennings Bryan Belief in God is almost universal and the effect of this belief is so vast that one is appalled at the thought of what social conditions would be if reverence for God were erased from every heart.
William Jennings BryanWilliam Jennings Bryan When I find a man who is not willing to pay his share of the burden of the government which protects him, I find a man who is unworthy to enjoy the blessings of a government like ours.
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Hans SelyeHans Selye God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.
AberjhaniAberjhani Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river, united with the ocean.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak
