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The Constitution has never treated religion as merely another private opinion that government can order people to keep to themselves.
One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
God is not dumb, that he should speak no more; If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor.
True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest.
I don't know whether you have any rights before you're born. All I know is that being born again doesn't entitle you to twice as many.
Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission, its masterpiece, is to reunite them.
Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.
it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists
It's not for any purpose such as religion, health, or things like that, I just never felt I had the need or want to drink or do drugs.
Dogma? Faith? These are the right and left pillars of every soul-crushing theology. Theosophists have no dogmas, exact no blind faith.
No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started... It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind.
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.
In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste.
Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east.
Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.
The Pentecostal power, when you sum it all up, is just more of God's love. If it does not bring more love, it is simply a counterfeit.
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .
Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us.
It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving.
Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former.
Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.
The Church does not dictate the policies of the nation. The Church proclaims the truth of God to which all these policies must conform.
Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.
I just think Texas and that whole Bible Belt section is so, like, corporate. And I don't agree with organized religion in that respect.
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.
Trouble is here. It is for a purpose. Use it for the purpose for which it was intended - to help you grow. Thank God for your troubles.
The most vital, creative, and positive thoughts are those stated in the Bible. Its words are alive and form powerful thought processes.
The Bible offers three metaphors that teach us God's view of life: Life is a test, life is a trust, and life is a temporary assignment.
The test of a man's conversion is whether he has enough Christianity to get it to other people. If he hasn't, there is something wrong.
I fully intend to preach the word of God to you until there's a difference between how you walk out of here and how you walked in here.
I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.
Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.
If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.
The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which keep us from catching the real thing.
I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted.
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.
Those who are used to a clergy take very lightly those who do not have a formal divinity degree: like Paul and Peter and James and John.
Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.
I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.
It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.
...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so.
...the synagogin', the tabernaclin', the psalmin', that goes on in this hoose, that's enough to break the spirits o' ony young creature.