Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.

Edward Gibbon
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  3. The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity. - Friedrich Nietzsche

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  5. What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God. - Unknown

More Quotes By Edward Gibbon
  1. ... but I must reluctantly observe that two causes, the abbreviation of time, and the failure of hope, will always tinge with a browner shade the evening of life.

  2. Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

  3. Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.

  4. Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

  5. War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice.

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