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The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.
You have to live with the people to know their needs, and you have to live with God to know how to solve them.
Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.
All religions were, at bottom, one, though they differed in detail and outward form like the leaves on a tree.
Religion! but for thee, prolific fiend, Who peoplest earth with demons, hell with men, And heaven with slaves!
I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.
This is my religion. I take long breaks now when I don't perform and I am not myself when I am not performing.
The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.
Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
We often can't see what God is doing in our lives, but God sees the whole picture and His plan for us clearly.
Women have been the most persecuted people throughout all of recorded history, more than any race or religion.
You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.
I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.
Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.
Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.
When we get through with the Jews in America, they'll think the treatment they received in Germany was nothing.
I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.
The answer to the ancient question Why is there something rather than nothing would be that nothingis unstable.
Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.
What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.
After all the great religions have been preached and expounded, man is still confronted with the Great Mystery.
My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.
Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion.
For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
The Word of God proves the truth of religion; the corruption of man, its necessity; government, its advantages.
All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.
...Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of modern psychiatric treatments.
Beauty has no boundaries, no rules, no colors. Beauty is like a religion. You can include everything inside it.
There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.
I was raised a black child in the South, where you're indoctrinated into a religion that an oppressor gave you.
Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
I think every religion is founded with good intentions, but with any good thing, there's a negative use for it.
The ground of all religion, that which makes it possible, is the relation in which the human soul stands to God.
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
You don't believe in organized religion, yet a major theme in so many of your works seems to be a quest for God.
I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.