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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
When a man has a problem very thoroughly and can't solve it, he really has too few problems. He needs more.
Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.
On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.
Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.
Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
There's so many strict ideas and rules, whether it's from religion or it's just generations and generations.
Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.
Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.
Popular religion is a coping mechanism for the anxieties of a dysfunctional social and economic environment.
My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer.
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race
In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand.
Religion is the only solid Base of morals and that Morals are the only possible Support of free governments.
Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art".
Equality for all is what we should all want, between race, religion, gender, sexuality... it doesn't matter.
All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.
If I had even a slight awareness, and practiced the Great Way, what I would fear would be deviating from it.
Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.
I don't build no heathen temples, where the Lord has done laid a hand. There's a well on the hill, let it be.
According to science, the universe began as a swirl of gas that, as it cooled, spun off the Ten Commandments.
Infidel, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.
Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.
No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.
If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.
Goodwill toward all beings is the true religion; cherish in your hearts boundless goodwill to all that lives.
For many people - from secular feminists to observant Jews - the notion of a feminist Judaism is an oxymoron.
I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.
The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.
The world holds two classes of men; intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.
Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.
Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
If the Bible is mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust it to tell us where we're going ?
Sincerity is the indispensable ground of all conscientiousness, and by consequence of all heartfelt religion.
Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.
All religions were, at bottom, one, though they differed in detail and outward form like the leaves on a tree.
Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.
We often can't see what God is doing in our lives, but God sees the whole picture and His plan for us clearly.
To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
Religion! but for thee, prolific fiend, Who peoplest earth with demons, hell with men, And heaven with slaves!