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«It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever its true meaning is understood. But I believe nobody will deny that it is often very abstruse, and may say things which are quite different from wha»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Religion,
Truth,
Understanding
| Keywords:
abstruse, affirm, Holy Bible, pious, prudent, The Holy Bible, untruth, untruths
«In pious times 'ere priest craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin: When man, on many, multiply'd his kind Ere one to one was, cursedly, confined; When Nature prompted, and no law deny'd Promiscuous use of concubine and bride»
«In order to achieve good result, a pious-objective is determined first and then followed by good Karma for its accomplishment.»
«O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.»
Author: St. Teresa of Avila
(Mystic, Nun, Writer)
| Keywords:
continuous, follies, longs, pious, possesses, utters
«SCARIFICATION, n. A form of penance practised by the mediaeval pious. The rite was performed, sometimes with a knife, sometimes with a hot iron, but always, says Arsenius Asceticus, acceptably if the penitent spared himself no pain nor harmless disfigurement. Scarification, with other crude penances, has now been superseded by benefaction. The founding of a library or endowment of a university is said to yield to the penitent a sharper and more lasting pain than is conferred by the knife or iron, and is therefore a surer means of grace. There are, however, two grave objections to it as a penitential method: the good that it does and the taint of justice.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
acceptably, benefaction, disfigurement, endowment, endowments, founding, last rites, mediaeval, penance, penitent, pious, practised, rite, sharper, supersede, superseded, supersedes, taint, The Rite
«OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe in which so many pious naturalists have seen a conspicuous evidence of design. The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
conspicuous, defect, ingeniously, naturalist, naturalists, ostrich, pious, The Ostrich, toe-in, toe
«In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.»
«No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.»
«In pious times, ere priestcraft did begin, before polygamy was made a sin»
«O the pious friendships of the female sex!»
Author: William Congreve
| Keywords:
pious
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