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“If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases.”

“Few men would be so gentle as to spare even the best, if by their destruction vile usurpers could become God's anointed, and by the most execrable wickedness invest themselves with that divine character.”

“It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun.”

“Why did the Whigs fail to force exclusion on Charles II?.”

“We live in an age that makes truth pass for treason, and as I dare not say anything against it, so the ears of those that are about me will probably be found too tender to hear it. This my trial and condemnation do sufficiently evidence.”

“Colonel Sidney's Speech, Delivered to the sheriff on the scaffold”

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"It became increasingly evident to me that God ordains times of illness so that they can be a time of inner recollection for those who are afflicted by them, an opportunity to recognize better what is …"

— Adrienne von Speyr

Literature1902–1967

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"Much of our modern difficulty, in religion and other things, arises merely from this: that we confuse the word "indefinable" with the word "vague." If some one speaks of a spiritual fact as "indefinab…"

— G. K. Chesterton

Literature1874–1936

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"The creeds of religion correspond to theories of science... intuitions of the human soul should be studied by the methods which are adopted with such great success in the region of positive science."

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Politics1888–1975

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"And when we speak of "abandonment" - a favorite word of Heidegger - we only mean to say that God does not exist and that it is necessary to draw the consequences of his absence to the end."

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Philosophy1905–1980

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