For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall ...not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the street...s, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward. But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You seem to think that I am adapted to nothing but the sugar-plums of intellect and had better not try to digest anything stronger....... a writer of popular sketches in magazines; a lecturer before Lyceums and College societies; a dabbler in metaphysics, poetry, and art, than which I would rather die, for if it has come to that, alas! verily, as you say, mediocrity has fallen on the name of Adams.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarm...ing place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it--because it is a fact.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are c...omfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, And a good deed that calls itself by tender names beco...mes the parent to a curse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If in time, as in place, there were degrees of high and low, I verily believe that the highest of time would be that which passed ...between the years of 1640 and 1660. For he that thence, as from the Devil's Mountain, should have looked upon the world and observed the actions of men, especially in England, might have had a prospect of all kinds of injustice, and of all kinds of folly, that the world could afford, and how they were produced by their dams hypocrisy and self-conceit, whereof the one is double iniquity, and the other double folly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I verily believe that the great good which has been effected in the world by Christianity has been largely counteracted by the pes...tilent doctrine on which all the Churches have insisted, that honest disbelief in their more less astonishing creeds is a moral offense, indeed a sin of the deepest dye, deserving and involving the same future retribution as murder and robbery. If we could only see, in one view, the torrents of hypocrisy and cruelty, the lies, the slaughter, the violations of every obligation of humanity, which have flowed from this source along the course of the history of Christian nations, our worst imaginations of Hell would pale beside the vision.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold, I teach... you the superman: he is the this sea, in him can your great contempt go under.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »