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Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellio

Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion. – Mary Astell

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Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best. – Mary Astell

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Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it. – Mary Astell

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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it. – Mary Astell

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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God. – Abraham Joshua Heschel

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I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. – Jiddu Krishnamurti

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The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. – John Updike

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It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all. – Denis Diderot

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