ATHEISM
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"Atheism is the death of hope, the suicide of the soul....." 
Anonymous

"Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man....." 
Sir Francis Bacon

"An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain
what he can't see....." 
O.A. Battista : 
Power to Influence People @1959

"Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life....."
Harry Emerson Fosdick

"There are no atheist in foxholes....." 
William T.Cummings: 
Sermons on Bataan, March 1942

"Only in Atheism does the spring rise higher than the source, the effect
exist without the cause, life come from a stone, blood from a turnip, a
silk purse from a sow's ear, a Beethoven Symphony or a Bach Fugue from a
kitten walking across the keys....." 
James M. Gillis

"Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not
compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power....." 
Plato

"Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of
understanding....." 
Plato

"No one ever dies an atheist....."
Plato

"The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it's heart....." 
H.G. Wells

"By night, an atheist half-believes in God....." 
Edward Young: 
Night Thoughts

"The atheist are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who
reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of
evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity
of things and of inevitability....." 
Voltaire: 
Philosophical Dictionary

"Atheism thrives most where religion is most debated.... " 
Welsh proverb

"Atheist put on false courage in the midst of their darkness and
misaprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will
sing or whistle to keep their courage...." 
Alexander Pope

"An atheist most embarrassing moment is when he feels profoundly thankful
for something, but can't think of anyone to thank for it...." 
Mary Anne Vincent

"The kingdom that is infested by atheist is beset by famine and disease,
and soon perishes.... "
Code of Manu:8


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THE BIBLE
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"Other books were given for our information, the Bible was given for our
transformation....... "
The Defender

"Men do not reject the Bible because it contradicts itself but because it
contradicts them...... "
The Defender

"Whence, but from heaven could men, unskilled in arts,
In several ages, in several parts,
Weave such agreeing truths? Or how?, or why?
Should all conspire to cheat us with a lie?
Unasked their pains,
ungrateful their advice,
Starving their gain,
and martydom their price.... " 
John Dryden

"Jest not with the two-edged sword of God's word....." 
Thomas Fuller

"It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible-reading
people..... "
Horace Greeley

"This great book.... it is the best gift God has given to man....but for it
we could not know right from wrong......"
Abraham Lincoln

"Most people are bothered by those passages in Scripture which they can't
understand; but as for me, I always notice that the passages in Scripture
which trouble me the most are those which I do understand....." 
Mark Twain


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SIN
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" One leak will sink a ship; and one sin will destroy a sinner...." 
John Bunyan: 
Pilgrim's Progress

"Our sense of sin is in proportion to our nearness to God...." 
Thomas D. Bernard

"The greastest security against sin is to be shocked at its presence... "
Thomas Carlyle

"Little sins make room for great, and one brings in all...." 
Thomas Edwards

"Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it
is hurtful..... " 
Benjamin Franklin: 
Poor Richard

"He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that
boast of it, is a devil.... "
Thomas Fuller

"Sins are like circles in the water when a stone is thrown into it; one
produces another.... " 
Phillip Henry

"There are two kinds of men: the righteous who believe themselves sinners;
the rest, sinners, who believe themselves righteous..... 
Blaise Pascal

"I hate the sin, but I love the sinner...." 
Thomas Buchanan Read

"Sin may open bright as the morning, but it will end dark as night...." 
Thomas De Witt Talmage

"No sin is small. No grain of sand is small in the mechanism of a
watch......" 
Jeremy Taylor

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