Daniel Thambyrajah Niles famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.

  • If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists' is to make a metaphysical utterance which cannot be either true or false. And by the same criterion, no sentence which purports to describe the nature of a transcendent god can possess any literal significance.

  • And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.

  • Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.

  • I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.

  • I drank my bottle of milk and ate my morsel of bread somewhere on the outskirts, while I circumspectly studied my environment or else fell to meditating on my own harsh lot.

  • It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.

  • People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.

  • Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find the bread.

  • The task of evangelism often involves preparing an open road so offenders can find their refuge in Christ.

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