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You have to live with the people to know their needs, and you have to live with God to know how to solve them.
Women have been the most persecuted people throughout all of recorded history, more than any race or religion.
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 courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.
Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
In post modern culture, people not only have their own views, they think they are entitled to their own facts.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.
You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
Wouldn't you like to contribute to an event that is part of Christ's own prediction, "I will build my church"?
Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.
I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.
I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.
Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.
Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.
Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.
Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.
I was raised a black child in the South, where you're indoctrinated into a religion that an oppressor gave you.
God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
After all the great religions have been preached and expounded, man is still confronted with the Great Mystery.
Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion.
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.
Beauty has no boundaries, no rules, no colors. Beauty is like a religion. You can include everything inside it.
The Word of God proves the truth of religion; the corruption of man, its necessity; government, its advantages.
In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.
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 answer to the ancient question Why is there something rather than nothing would be that nothingis unstable.
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.
What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.
I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.
I think every religion is founded with good intentions, but with any good thing, there's a negative use for it.
My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.
Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
When we get through with the Jews in America, they'll think the treatment they received in Germany was nothing.
Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.
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.
In this light, my spirit saw through all things and into all creatures and I recognized God in grass and plants.
In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.
What is paradise, but, a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs, full of pleasure and nothing there but delights.
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.
When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.