"There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have relinquished belief only with regret. To this I reply: who wishes that there was a permanent, unalterable celestial despotism that subjected us to continual surveillance and could convict us of thought-crime, and who regarded us as its private property even after we died? How happy we ought to be, at the reflection that there exists not a shred of respectable evidence to support such a horrible hypothesis."

-- Christopher Hitchens

#Atheist Quotes #Regret Quotes #Reflection Quotes

“For those who don't believe in themselves, hardwork is worthless." -Maito Gai (Naruto)”
“When the devil drives, needs must.”
“War takes people's lives and destroys property, but it does not resolve the world's problems. If anything is achieved through war, it is to plant the seeds for the next violent conflict as the vanquished and their children will usually not accept the outcome.”
“Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world.”
“Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic.”
“Power from on high . . . It is God inserting into you divine activity with mightiness.”
“When we repent, the Lord allows us to put the mistakes of the past behind us.”

Source : "The Miracle of the Atonement". C. Scott Grow's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2011.
“Every person who has ever achieved anything has been knocked down many times. But all of them picked themselves up and kept going, and that is what I have always tried to do.”

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