Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.
Category Archive: 1851
Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn’t.
The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism.
We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.
As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.
For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.
No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.