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There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.
Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.
Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.
Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.
Those who attempt to evangelize the culture by imitating its forms must beware lest the culture evangelize them.
In this light, my spirit saw through all things and into all creatures and I recognized God in grass and plants.
When all else fails, and to stand firm seems impossible, stand on the wood of the Cross; it will float with you.
To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.
In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.
God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes.
You grow up trying to interpret, worshipping, visual symbols. It's a body-soaked imagery that you're looking at.
All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
What is paradise, but, a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs, full of pleasure and nothing there but delights.
The whole essence of the Christian religion is based on the atonement of Christ, his death and his resurrection.
There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.
It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.
I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.
We live our lives for our life's sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we're dead.
We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.
Betrayal of any kind is hard, but betrayal by one's religion is excruciating. It makes you want to rage and weep.
We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
I don't judge people based on their religion. But I judge them based on how they respect the French constitution.
I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.
The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become.
Won't you look down upon me Jesus, you've got to help me make a stand. You just got to see me through another day.
The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.
Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.
Almighty God freely bestows the good things in this world in proportion to a person's mental readiness to receive.
We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.
I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.
I will take no more physick, not even my opiates; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded.
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.
Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
There doesn't seem to be a religion in 'Game of Thrones' that's totally peaceful... we haven't seen any Buddhists.
Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me.
Nothing is more important to me, and nothing was more important to our founding fathers, than freedom of religion.
The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.
Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake.
If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.
Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.
The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
Whilst you live a very little religion seems enough; but believe me, it requires a great deal when you come to die.
[To] me organized religion, the formalities and routines, [is] like being marched in formation to look at a sunset.