"Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy-a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages."

-- Frederick Douglass

#Religious Quotes #Prayer Quotes #Greatness Quotes

“My heart wants roots My mind wants wings. I cannot bear Their bickerings.”
“Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time.”

Source : David Eagleman (2009). “Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives”, p.84, Vintage
“Humans alone are created as rational beings in the image of God, capable of a relationship with God and given by him the capacity to understand the universe in which they live.”

Source : John Lennox (2011). “Gunning for God: Why the New Atheists are Missing the Target”, p.28, Lion Books
“Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global health community. It kills more children under 5 years old every year than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.”
“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.”
“A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.”
“The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.”
“I am doubting what to do.”

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