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Imagine using as an authority in the matter of marriage the opinion of a celibate priest!

— Joseph Lewis

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Man's inhumanity to man will continue as long as man loves God more than he loves his fellow man.

Praying as a public function, particularly when led by a clergyman, is a vulgar display of an exclusively personal matter.

With this recognition of the finality of death, no one should willingly withhold acts that would bring benefits, joy or happiness to others.

Of the ten crimes which Biblical Hebrew law punished by stoning, nine have ceased to be offenses in modern society.

As superstition is the weed of the brain, it grows perfusely, once started.

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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

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The best way to worship God is to love your wife.

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