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 BRYANOnly those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
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The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.
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Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
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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.
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Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.
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The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.
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As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.
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The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
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A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
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If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
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Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.
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My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
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You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don’t argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.
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If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay?
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If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.
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This nation is able to legislate for its own people on every question, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth.
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No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.
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Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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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.
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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
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The wisdom of the Bible writers is more than human; the prophecies proclaim a Supreme Ruler who, though inhabiting all space, deigns to speak through the hearts and minds and tongues of His children.
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Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.
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