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True, there are some great passages in Revelation, but the book on the whole is like boarding-school plum pudding, where the plums are scarce and far apart.

— Leslie Weatherhead The Christian Agnostic (1965)

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Why do men hug words to their hearts after the living truth has long since fled from them?

The Christian Agnostic (1965)

Any man, to the extent to which he is good, reveals the nature of God.

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I believe that all men, whatever their religion or lack of it, pass on into another phase of being, to another class in God’s school.

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Christianity must have a marvelous inherent power or the churches would have killed it long ago.

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There is no authority for God’s existence except the inward conviction that is born of mystical experience.

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There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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