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«All of us have mortal bodies, composed of perishable matter, but the soul lives forever: it is a portion of the Deity housed in our bodies»
Author: Flavius Josephus
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Body,
Soul
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composed, deity, housed, perishable, perishables, portion
«God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.»
«Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the Deity to be a source of delight»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
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appointed, appointing, appoints, blue, color, deity, delight, everlastingly
«At this day, the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ the seed of Deity deposited in human nature as a means of suppressing the name of God. Can anything be more detestable than this madness in man, who»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
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bosom, deity, deposited, deposits, detestable, employ, monster, name of God, suppressing, sustains
«Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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ancients, Bacchus, convenient, deity
«ABDOMEN, n. The temple of the god Stomach, in whose worship, with sacrificial rights, all true men engage. From women this ancient faith commands but a stammering assent. They sometimes minister at the altar in a half-hearted and ineffective way, but true reverence for the one deity that men really adore they know not. If woman had a free hand in the world's marketing the race would become graminivorous.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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abdomen, adore, altar, Ancient World, assented, assenting, commands, deity, engage, Free market, hearted, ineffective, marketing, minister, sacrificial, stammer, stammering, Temple of, The temple
«DOG, n. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. This Divine Being in some of his smaller and silkier incarnations takes, in the affection of Woman, the place to which there is no human male aspirant. The Dog is a survival --an anachronism. He toils not, neither does he spin, yet Solomon in all his glory never lay upon a door-mat all day long, sun-soaked and fly-fed and fat, while his master worked for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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additional, all day long, anachronism, aspirant, deity, designed, divine being, dog days, fat, Fed, feed upon, idle, incarnations, overflow, overflows, place of worship, purchase, recognition, seasoned, smaller, soak, soaked, soaking, Solomon, Solomonic, spin, subsidiary, surplus, surpluses, survival, tail, takes in, The Dog, the Incarnation, toils, tolerant, wag, wagging, wags, wherewith, worked
«Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
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deity, despotism, done with, strengthened, submissive
«Half dust, half deity, unfit alike to sink or soar»
«For my own part, my belief in the perfection of the Deity will not permit me to believe that a book so manifestly obscure, disorderly, and contradictory can be His work»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Belief,
Books,
Perfection
| Keywords:
contradictories, contradictory, deity, disorderly, manifestly, obscure, permit, work permit
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