"The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down."

-- Robert Green Ingersoll

#Humorous Quotes #Heaven Quotes #Religion Quotes

“God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.”
“By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.”
“Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it.”
“Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.”
“We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness...”
“Human beings are many-layered creatures, and do not succumb to the hegemony of others as easily as historians and politicians sometimes imply. Those Welsh, Scottish and Anglo-Irish individuals who became part of the British Establishment in this period did not in the main sell out in the sense of becoming Anglicised look-alikes. Instead, they became British in a new and intensely profitable fashion, while remaining in their own minds and behavior Welsh, or Scottish, or Irish aswell.”
“I've finally found my home - as Lt. Frank Drebin.”
“The nearest I have ever seen to the great Willie Pep”

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