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Far from being hostile to religion is capable of rendering religion important services.
The universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist.
I don't like religion much, and I am glad that in the Bible the word is not to be found.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy.
Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .
I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.
Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Today there are two Madonnas, our lady of Fatima over here and that woman from Michigan.
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
You can do amazing things if you have strong faith, deep desire, and just hang in there.
Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false.
God made so many different kinds of people; why would God allow only one way to worship?
Those who think all religions are the same look at the wrappings instead of the content.
The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.
The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.
By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
The greatest proof that the Bible is inspired is that it has stood so much bad preaching.
To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.
Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.
My misfortune is my ability to see both sides even of the fundamental religious question.
Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.
Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion.
If churches want to play the game of politics, let them pay admission like everyone else.
Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
When you have succeeded in enshrining God within your heart, you will see Him everywhere.
The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Religion is like a personal computer. You let people in if you want to... We're all gods.
Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning.
Revival is when God gets so sick and tired of being misrepresented that He shows Himself.
There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character.
The ministry of fear that won't let you live. The ministry of grace that doesn't forgive.
Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.
Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.
God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine.
The belief in something bigger and supernatural is not the same thing as linear religion.