Quote #137

I tell you God cannot afford to damn a man in the next world who has made a happy family in this. God cannot afford to cast over the battlements of heaven the man who has a happy home upon this earth. God cannot afford to be unpitying to a human heart capable of pity. God cannot clothe with fire the man who has clothed the naked here; and God cannot send to eternal pain a man who has done something toward improving the condition of his fellow-men.

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  5. I have the same right to give you my opinion that you have to give me yours. I have no right to compel you to hear, if you do not want to. …
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  7. I have the same right to express my thought to the whole world, that the whole world has to express its thought to me.
  8. I will never desert the one I love for the promise of any god.

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