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Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
You see, you don't get old from age, you get old from inactivity, from not believing in something.
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
It's a delightful thing to receive a good word just at your time of need. Encourage someone today.
If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing.
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.
No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.
[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.
New Testament Christians witnessed — not because they had to — but because they could not help it.
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
Love the Lord and in him love me too. And in him, go your own way and I'll be right here with you.
There is more in this heaven and earth than what the scientist knows and is revealed in the x-ray.
I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.
The more men have multiplied the forms of religion, so much the more has vital godliness declined.
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know.
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness.
Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life.
From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.
One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.
Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything.
To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot and ought not to be forced.
Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching.
Praying is begging for an unseen deity to alter the laws of nature for someone admittedly unworthy.
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
But I don't believe in organised politics, organised religion, organised music, organised anything.
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science.
Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
It could be that one of the greatest hindrances to evangelism is the poverty of our own experience.
I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.
We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.
Two religions cannot both be right, because they contradict each other, yet they can both be wrong.
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway.
[Evolution is] one of the best documented, most compelling and exciting concepts in all of science.
Religions which have any very strong hold over men's actions have generally some instinctive basis.
There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument.
Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is committed to spiritual aristocracy.
Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token