by Joyce Meyer. "I believe God has a great purpose for you, and I urge you not to settle for anything less. He wants to bless you and give you a life that will thrill you, fulfill you, and bring you deep joy and sweet satisfaction, but also challenge you, stretch you, frustrate you at times, and even lead you to moments when you are tempted to give up." --Book jacket. (Check Catalog)
Friday, May 8, 2009
Never give up! : relentless determination to overcome life's challenges
by Joyce Meyer. "I believe God has a great purpose for you, and I urge you not to settle for anything less. He wants to bless you and give you a life that will thrill you, fulfill you, and bring you deep joy and sweet satisfaction, but also challenge you, stretch you, frustrate you at times, and even lead you to moments when you are tempted to give up." --Book jacket. (Check Catalog)
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"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness, that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind." - Thomas Paine (The Age of Reason, 1794-1795.)
And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerve in the brain of Jupiter. But may we hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated reformer of human errors.
-Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823
"Question with boldness even the existence of a god." - Thomas Jefferson (letter to Peter Carr, 10 August 1787)
"When a Religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its Professors are obliged to call for help of the Civil Power, it is a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one." - Benjamin Franklin (from a letter to Richard Price, October 9, 1780;)
Ernest Hemingway
"All thinking men are atheists."
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"Religion is based . . . mainly on fear . . . fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. . . . My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race."
"Fear is the parent of cruelty, therefore it is no wonder if religion and cruelty have gone hand-in-hand."
"I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is none the less true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting."
"I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out."
- Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, educator, mathematician, and social critic (1872-1970).
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