"Here and there on the branch of an oak a congress of leaves still clung, rigid as flakes of bronze."

-- Martha Ostenso

#Autumn Quotes #Branches Quotes #Bronze Quotes

“If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray?”

Source : Dan Barker (1992). “Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist”, Freedom from Religion Fndtn
“Although I claim to be a Christian, I live at a moment in time when the Christian faith is being defined by fundamentalists who have dishonored Christ and are in the process of destroying His church. I refuse to wear the 'Christian' label without redefining it.”
“Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions.”
“If anyone else asked that question, O He Who Is Terrible and Great, I would have said they were an ignorant fool; in you it is a sign of the disarming simplicity which is the fount of all virtue.”
“Rosie laughed in a not too reassuring way if you like sane laughter.”
“I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did not exist. I was also very angry with God for not existing. I was equally angry with Him for creating a world.”
“If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.”
“I am the slave of those who hunger and thirst after me and treat everything else as unimportant.”

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