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Desmond Tutu
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When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
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Margaret Smith
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If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No."
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Annie Dillard
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Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"
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Annie Dillard
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Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"
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Margaret Smith
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If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No."
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Desmond Tutu
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When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
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Bible
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The Lord is my light, and my salvation; whom shall I fear?
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Albert Einstein
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To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true
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Comte de Falloux
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And you, systematic Utopians, who make an abstraction of human nature, fomentors of atheism, fed on chimerae and hatreds, emancipators of woman, destroyers of the family, genealogists of the simian race, you whose name was but lately an outrage, be satisf
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Robert Fulghum
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Better than hide-and-seek, I like the game called Sardines. In Sardines the person who is IT goes and hides, and everybody goes looking for him. When you find him, you get in with him and hide there with him. Pretty soon everybody is hiding together, all
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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One and all, religions have their original prophets, their sacred books, their traditions of ages gone. One and all require us to accept without question what other people long dead have said or written; to obey without question the commands of those behi
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.
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John Henry Jowett
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I have had but one passion, and I have lived for it - the absorbingly arduous yet glorious work of proclaiming the grace and love of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
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George Sand
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No religion can be built on force.
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Jonathan Swift
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We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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Mark Twain
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http://www.readbookonline.net/books/Swift/136/
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Brigham Young
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... And God, who studies each separate soul, out of commonplace lives makes his beautiful whole.
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Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
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So many Gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
When just the art of being kind
Is all this sad world needs.
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Edward Young
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A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.
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George Burns
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The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.
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Marianne Williamson
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Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.
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Mark Twain
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But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
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Mark Twain
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We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.
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Desmond Tutu
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When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said Let us pray. We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
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Paul Tournier
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Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.
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George Bernard Shaw
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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
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George Santayana
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The Bible is literature, not dogma.
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Blaise Pascal
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Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
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Dennis Miller
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Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.
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Bill Maher
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Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.
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Bill Maher
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The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.
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C. S. Lewis
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
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Anne Lamott
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You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
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Soren Kierkegaard
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Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
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Helen Keller
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It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
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Helen Keller
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It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
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Thomas Jefferson
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Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
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Robert A. Heinlein
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Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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Robert A. Heinlein
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One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
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Judith Hayes
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The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine?
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Judith Hayes
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If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
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Frederick the Great
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Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
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Bill Gates
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Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
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Mohandas Gandhi
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I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
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A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side - the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other.
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Albert Einstein
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Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
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Frederick Douglass
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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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Annie Dillard
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Eskimo: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? Priest: No, not if you did not know. Eskimo: Then why did you tell me?
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Charles Caleb Colton
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Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it.
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Rolland W. Schloerb
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If our religion only proclaims a high standard of ethics, then our religion is a burden heavier than we can bear.
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Kahlil Gibran
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The truly religious man does not embrace a religion and he who embraces one has no religion.
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Thomas Jefferson
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Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.
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Neil Postman
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I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.
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Unknown
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Present your religion to a little child, set him in the midst of those who profess it. If it frightens him, and freezes the smiles on his lips, then whatever sort of religion it is, it is not Christianity.
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T. S. Eliot
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
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George Bernard Shaw
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Let me give you one definition of ethics: It is good to maintain life and to further life; it is bad to damage and destroy life. And this ethic, profound, universal, has the significance of a religion. It is religion.
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T. S. Eliot
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Any religion...is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.
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Thomas Jefferson
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Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.
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Thomas Szasz
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Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
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D. H. Lawrence
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Also in Cosmic Religion
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John Keats
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Love is my religion - I could die for it.
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Muhammad Ali
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I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
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George Sand
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No religion can be built on force.
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Benjamin Disraeli
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Said Waldershare, 'Sensible men are all of the same religion.' 'And pray what is that' ... 'Sensible men never tell.'
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James Barrie
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One's religion is whatever one is most interested in.
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Carl Sandburg
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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
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H Hahn Blavatsky
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There is no religion higher than the truth.
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Elbert Hubbard
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The artist needs no religion beyond his work.
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Thomas Jefferson
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It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
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F. Forrester Church
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Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.
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Frederick the Great
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Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Frederick the Great
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Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
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Alfred North Whitehead
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Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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Religion is what keeps the poor man from murdering the rich.
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Guy de Maupassant
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Thomas Jefferson
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Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.
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Joseph Addison
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One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success.
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Martin Luther
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The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
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John Hay
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All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
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William James
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Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.
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Jorge Luis Borges
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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H.L. Mencken
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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
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Gertrude Stein
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Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
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Franz Werfel
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Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.
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Vincent Van Gogh
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When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
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Jorge Luis Borges
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Edmund Burke
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.
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Charles Caleb Colton
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Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but--live for it.
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Charles Caleb Colton
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Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it.
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William Hiram Foulkes
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Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity.
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Charles Lamb
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I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
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William James
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Religion is the monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on
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Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.
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Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
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Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
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There shall be no compulsion in religion.
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I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
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Keep thy religion to thyself.
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
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Religion ... is the opium of the masses.
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Religion is the opiate of the masses.
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Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.
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Religion is a defense against the experience of God.
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When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion.
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Get a taste of religion.....bite a nun!
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We have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love each other.
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Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.
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Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
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A cult is a religion with no political power
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A cult is a religion with no political power.
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We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.
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Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.
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A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.
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Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.
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Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
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To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosohpy.
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Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.
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Religion: The bully's excuse for picking on the wimp
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Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.
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It is a mistake to suppose that God is only, or even chiefly, concerned with religion.
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The easiest way to get rich is to start your own religion. - L. Ron Hubbard.
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Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people.
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Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
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There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Religion is far too important a thing for atheists to leave to the religious.
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Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
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Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
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The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
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Lakes, rivers, streams...all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.
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We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.
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I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.
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