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Quote by John Ruskin
You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true acti

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. – John Ruskin

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Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book. – John Ruskin

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No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. – John Ruskin

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The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but its the same story with different characters and different costumes. – James Randi

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I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted. – Luke Ford

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If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell. – Charles Spurgeon

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God made so many different kinds of people. Why would he allow only one way to serve him? – Martin Buber

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