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The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
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Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought.
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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
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