Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.
To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book.
When I was young, I thought I was a bird at one time. Then they told me I can't fly, so I stopped flying.
Some skeptics believe religious people are religious because they fear Hell. It's about as fair as saying skeptics are skeptics because they fear the ridicule of modern society.
Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.
When men allow other people to ridicule, laugh and jeer at the truth, that cannot but bring sorrow to the heart of God
Unlike the world that points out your flaws to ridicule you, when GOD point out your flaws, it's because He want to walk you out of it.
You can spit on a rose, but it's still a rose.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.", May 16, 1767)
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God grante
Altho' I rarely waste time in reading on theological subjects, as mangled by our Pseudo-Christians, yet I can readily suppose Basanistos may be amusing. Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used a...