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Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.
Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches.
Hell is having to execute a pointless act from which nothing ever comes except the need to do it again.
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.
There's nothing funnier than religion. Try explaining it to a kid. I had it all wrong when I was a kid.
By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.
Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
In all matters moderation is desirable. If a thing is carried to excess, it will prove a source of evil.
Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.
The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.
My heart goes out to you, and I long to see you all coming constantly to God for a fresh supply of love.
Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
We cannot be effective if we continue to cling to the old ways, the old strategies, the old assumptions.
Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.
To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.
In old time we had treen chalices and golden priests, but now we have treen priests and golden chalices.
Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]
Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.
The laws of Caesar are one thing, those of Christ, another. Papinianus judges one way, our Paul another.
Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.
Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.'
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
In my opinion, love is not about gender, it's not about religion. Love has no borders and no boundaries.
Sports is a unique thing in our country. It's so influential. It's almost like a sacrament for religion.
I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.
I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.
Self-conscious, uncertain, I'm showered by the dust. But the spirit enters into me and I submit to trust.
When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
In spite of our high-tech world and efficient procedures, people remain the essential ingredient of life.
Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first.
So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.
Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.
One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
The lack of understanding of something is not evidence for God. It's evidence of a lack of understanding.
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.
I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.
When you have a major loss in your life, the first thing you need to do is tell God exactly how you feel.
I want everyone out there in TV land to touch the TV. Touch the back of the TV and get a shock for Jesus.
I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.