“I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.”
Benjamin Franklin
“How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.”
“Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.”
“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
Abraham Lincoln
“God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country."”
“I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.”
“You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus”
Mark Twain