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I have not the slightest confidence in 'spiritual manifestations.'
To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds.
It is what people do not know that they persecute each other about.
Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.
In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God.
The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true.
Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.
Liberty sustains the same relation to mind that space does to matter.
Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt.
Freedom believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance.
Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for.
If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius.
The undressed is vulgar; the nude is pure, and the well-dressed tainted.
Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous.
You have to change men physically before you change them intellectually.
It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.
The history of intellectual progress is written in the lives of infidels.
Let every man teach his son, teach his daughter, that labor is honorable.
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.
We do not need the forgiveness of God, but of each other and of ourselves.
He who treats his friends and enemies alike, has neither love nor justice.
It is better to deserve without receiving than to receive without deserving
Many people think they have religion when they are troubled with dyspepsia.
It is grander to think and investigate for yourself than to repeat a creed.
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them.
Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.
Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing.
It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle.
He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.
Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves.
I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children.
Spirituality for the most part is a mask worn by idleness, arrogance and greed.
I do not believe in loving enemies; I have pretty hard work to love my friends.
In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.
Nothing is more despicable than to reach fame by crawling, position by cringing.
Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God.
The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.
Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars.
I am not so much for the freedom of religion as I am for the religion of freedom.
Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors.
It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.