"From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then to them with a long train of other absurd opinions, and superstitious practices."

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Source : Joseph Priestley (1782). “An History of the Corruption of Christianity”, p.442

Joseph Priestley

#Practice Quotes #Long Quotes #Soul Quotes

“Great liars are also great magicians.”
“A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.”
“Once upon a time a Georgian printed a couple of books that attracted notice, but immediately it turned out that he was little more than an amanuensis for the local blacks--that his works were really the products, not of white Georgia, but of black Georgia. Writing afterward as a white man, he swiftly subsided into the fifth rank.”
“For writers: If you polish a book too much, it'll be flat and shiny and smooth--and not too interesting. It's the little pits and bumps and whatnot that show voice and make a book unique from all the other super shiny flat surfaces”
“What does the gay movement mean when it says tolerance?...It means absolutely unconditionally accepting it as perfectly normal, healthy, natural and something that should be integrated into every part of society.”
“There was so much of beauty here: the neat, small tracks of a foraging creature, stoat or marten; the inticate tracery of a skeleton leaf, still clinging vainly to its parent tree as, little by little, time stripped it of its substance, leaving only the delicate remembrance of what it had been.”

Source : Juliet Marillier (2011). “The Dark Mirror”, p.265, Pan Macmillan
“Time, on its own, heals nothing.”

Source : Mary Rakow (2015). “The Memory Room: A Novel”, p.186, Counterpoint
“I went out with Robbie Williams and Liam Gallagher. I was accused of going out with many different people but that wasn't my fault.”

Source : "Saintlier than thou" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2006.

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