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If, when we compare two versions of a story, the second known to be a retelling of the first, and find that the second has more of a miraculous element, we may reasonably conclude we have legendary (or midrashic or whatever) embellishment. The tale has grown in the telling. This sort of comparison is common in extrabiblical research and no one holds that it cannot properly indicate legend formation there.

If within us we find nothing over us we succumb to what is around us.

If you are a Christian, you are in danger. If you decided to abandon your faith and become an atheist, you also are to be liquidated according to their concept. You are in danger if you decide to become a Muslim. It is not going to save you anyway because they believe traditional Islam is hostile to their goals.

If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, wherever you are.

If you are facing trouble right now, don't ask, “Why me?” Instead ask, “What do you want me to learn?” Then trust God and keep on doing what's right.

If you are serious about changing your life, you are going to have to get into the Bible. You need to read it, study it, memorize it, meditate on it, and apply it.

If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go

If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

If you hate gay marriage, then don't marry a gay person.

If you have science and art, You also have religion; But if you don't have them, You better have religion.

If you ignore every single thing Jesus told you to do, you are just auditing. You're not a Christian.

If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that the world will not speak well of you.

If you make intense supplication and the timing of the answer is delayed, do not despair of it. His reply to you is guaranteed; but in the way He chooses, not the way you choose, and at the moment He desires, not the moment you desire.

If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.

If you take missions out of the Bible, you won't have anything left but the covers.

If you want to know why you were jplaced on this planet, you must begin with God. You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.

If you take care of the little things, the big things take care of themselves.

If you've been full of error and defeat, be done with it. Say, "By God's grace, I'm done with it," and take charge of yourself like never before.

If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate....Try science.

If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite.

If you worry, you are a worrier because your mind is saturated with worry thoughts. To counteract these, mark every passage in your Bible that speaks of faith, hope, and courage.

Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so.

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion.

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service.

Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars.

I have come to the conclusion that whether or not a person is a religious believer does not matter. Far more important is that they be a good human being.

I have always respected everyone's religion. As I say, there is only one God and a lot of confused people.

I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self in me.

I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.

I have an Easter challenge for Christians. My challenge is simply this: tell me what happened on Easter. I am not asking for proof. My straightforward request is merely that Christians tell me exactly what happened on the day that their most important doctrine was born.

I have been into many of the ancient cathedrals - grand, wonderful, mysterious. But I always leave them with a feeling of indignation because of the generations of human beings who have struggled in poverty to build these altars to the unknown god.

I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.

I have never resisted the lord in my life, and I never will. But I'm not so hungry for dialogue with him that I have to make up his part as well as my own.

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.

I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.

I know a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were much consoled when they found he was planting trees in his garden.

I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood.

I just look at death as not a threat. It's inevitable, and I have an assurance of eternal life.

I hope I will be religious again but as for regaining my character I despare.

I just finished reading the Koran, and there's nothing in there I didn't hear in Sunday school.

I know that some will have hard thoughts of me, when they hear their Christ named beside my Buddha, yet I am sure that I am willing they should love their Christ more than my Buddha, for the love is the main thing, and I like him too.

I know that the pope's infallible, but that doesn't mean he can't make mistakes.

I know what I'm giving up for Lent: my New Year's resolutions.

Imagine there's no heaven... it's easy if you try.

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.

I'm a born - again atheist.

I'm a scientist. We don't talk about the spirit. Soul is a four letter word in our tradition.