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Whilst you live a very little religion seems enough; but believe me, it requires a great deal when you come to die.
Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.
We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil.
The good Lord made this world and everything that's in it. The way I see it, baby, you got to love it to the limit.
Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works.
Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.
When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.
The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.
The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
Through this world I've stumbled, so many times betrayed, trying to find an honest word, to find the truth enslaved.
Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.
If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.
Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.
The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.
Christians can be positive even in a negative situation because we know God has a purpose for allowing that problem.
Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion.
There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.
I b'lieve in religion, and one of these days, when I've got matters tight and snug, I calculates to tend to my soul.
The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Religion, as it is understood in the West, does not lead toward progress, and science does not lead toward humanism.
It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.
My religion is to seek for truth in life and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not find them while I live.
In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."
There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.
We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.
Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.
The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
There is a religion around 'Star Wars' that is different than even the fanaticism around comic books and other media.
Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods.
You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team.
God always answers prayers. Sometimes it's 'yes.' Sometimes the answer is 'no.' Sometimes it's 'you gotta be kidding.
AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals. It is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.
My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and, I might add, infinitely absurd.
As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
In many parts of the Bible Belt, the divorce rate was discovered to be roughly 50 percent above the national average.
whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.
I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.