"It goes with the passionate intensity and deep conviction of the truth of a religious belief, and of course of the importance of the superstitious observances that go with it, that we should want others to share it - and the only certain way to cause a religious belief to be held by everyone is to liquidate nonbelievers. The price in blood and tears that mankind generally has had to pay for the comfort and spiritual refreshment that religion has brought to a few has been too great to justify our entrusting moral accountancy to religious belief."

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Source : Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.210, Oxford University Press, USA

Peter Medawar

#Spiritual Quotes #Religious Quotes #Blood Quotes

“My bottom is so big it's got its own gravitational field.”
“To live a life you love, you must Love the life you live.”
“The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.”

Source : Watchman Nee (2005). “A Table in the Wilderness”, p.23, CLC Publications
“Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.”

Source : Luis Alberto Urrea (2006). “The Hummingbird's Daughter: A Novel”, p.11, Hachette UK
“If we imagine that God is somehow punishing us, then we will live our lives in desperation and in fear that we are somehow avoiding displeasing God. The difficulty with that is as many ideas about how to displease and how to please God, as there are hairs on your head.”
“We should clap or something." Curran said. "She's trying so hard.”
“Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears”
“There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love.”

Source : Lytton Strachey remarks to Dora Carrington, March 23, 1917.

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