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- It is never too late with us, so long as we are aware of our faults and bear them impatiently.
- Jacobi
- Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life.
- M. R. Vincent
- A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient if it produce amendment, and the greatest insufficient if it do not.
- C. C. Colton
- Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
- A. J. Toynbee
- I never told my religion nor scrutinize that of another. I never attempted to make a convert nor wished to change another's creed. I have judged of others' religion by their lives, for it is from our lives and not from our words that our religion must be read. By the same test must the world judge me.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.
- John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
- Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people.
- Jean Guehenno
- Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
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