“Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer”
John Bunyan
“If a man possesses a repentant spirit his sins will disappear, but if he has an unrepentant spirit his sins will continue and condemn him for their sake forever.”
Buddha
“A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.”
Oscar Wilde
“The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.”
James Allen
“No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time -nor ever will”
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.”
Samuel Butler
“The time is at hand when the wearing of a prayer shawl and skullcap will not bar a man from the White House unless, of course, the man is Jewish”
Jules Farber
