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Rh There never yet was a mother who taught her child to be an infidel. —.

O Lord God, cleanse us from the infidelity of our every-day life, and bring us into the spirit of Jesus, that love may reign triumphant in us, and that we may glorify our Father in heaven.

Is it for the cultivated man, the man of broad and general views, to throw himself without reserve and with all his weight, into what, for aught he yet knows, may be only a cross-current and eddy, instead of the main stream of truth? —.

I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth. —.

Freethinkers are generally those that never think at all. —.

Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth. —.

When you see a mad dog, don't argue with him unless you are sure of your logic. —.

In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well-meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect. I believe that it is safe to say that Christianity is indebted for none of its progress in the world to rational conflicts with infidelity. I do not believe that a single great wrong has ever been overthrown by meeting the advocates of wrong in argument. —.