If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANEvolution 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.
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The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one’s country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.
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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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Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.
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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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That is the one thing in my public career that I regret–my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.
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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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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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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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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.
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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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