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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
There is no counsel like God's counsel. No comfort like His comfort. No wisdom more profound than the wisdom of the Scriptures.
I claim to represent all the cultures, for my religion, whatever it may be called, demands the fulfillment of all the cultures.
Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly.
I don't like it, to be honest, when politicians make a big thing of their religious beliefs, so I don't make a big thing of it.
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished.
That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.
Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.
This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.
This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.
Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.
I think while zealots fast and frown, And fight for two or seven, That there are fifty roads to town, And rather more to Heaven.
The skeptic may deny your doctrine or attack your church but he cannot honestly ignore the fact that your life has been changed.
No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history.
There are many pitfalls in the marathon of life. But regardless of what you go through, you can count on God's sustaining grace.
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.
Americans practice different faiths in churches, synagogues, mosques and temples. And many good people practice no faith at all.
The contraction of theological influence has been at once the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.
Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values.
Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.
People consider the harms they inflict to be justified and forgettable, and the harms they suffer to be unprovoked and grievous.
Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.
Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.
The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.
You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe
There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.
Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just be the world as God.
This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.
I cannot belong to a nation which permits such barbarities as stoning to death and amputation - I don't care what religion it is.
Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes anyone think theirs is right?
Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.
It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.
Quantum mechanics is so counter-intuitive, physicists have never been able to come up with a comfortable picture of how it works.
Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?
What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.
Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.
The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.
For the majority of English people there are only two religions, Roman Catholic, which is wrong, and the rest, which don't matter.
That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.
It will be proper to take a review of the several sources from which governments have arisen, and on which they have been founded.
I was a creative kid; I wasn't really into sports, and sports in the South are a pretty big deal. It's like a religion down there.
The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.
As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.
Religion is a very delicate subject in Lebanon. You have to know how to say things in a very delicate way in order to be accepted.