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?
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANIf evolution wins, Christianity goes!
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The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
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Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.
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If God himself was not willing to use coercion to force man to accept certain religious views, man, uninspired and liable to error, ought not to use the means that Jehovah would not employ.
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An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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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.
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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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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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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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Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.
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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.
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Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
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None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.
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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.
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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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