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If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.
If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of human dignity.
I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.
No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God.
If they won't come to worship God in a church, something must be done. We have to instigate a nationwide search for a way to make it fun.
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!
With faith and love God's given, springing from the hope we know. We will pray the joy you'll live in, is the strength that now you show.
Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
To reflect upon the event horizon is a great deal more awe-inspiring than a burning bush or a wooden statue that weeps or pees or bleeds.
Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.
The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.
If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that the world will not speak well of you.
We shouldn't even need the word 'atheism'. If people didn't invent ridiculous imaginary gods, rational people wouldn't have to deny them.
It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.
"Jesus said to 5 of 7 churches, "Repent or Else." That should be the focus of every pastor, denomination. We are headed for the OR ELSE."
There are no circumstances in your life where God will not stand will not stand with you and help you, no matter what the trouble may be.
In the name of religion, we force widowhood upon our three lakh girl-widows who could not understand the import of the marriage ceremony.
If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace
Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.
There would be no value in worship services and symbols did they not, preserved in their Purity and Beauty, serve as aids to right living.
The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.
A little knowledge and an over-abundance of zeal always tends to be harmful. In the area involving religious truths, it can be disastrous.
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
I don't know a more irreligious attitude, one more utterly bankrupt of any human content, than one which permits childred to be destroyed.
I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.
When you feel your life's too hard, just go have a talk with God. Well, he's the only free psychiatrist that's known throughout the world.
In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.
The Bible tells us that the sins of the fathers are passed to succeeding generations. The virtues of the fathers can be passed along, too.
Dogmas are the toys that amuse and can satisfy but unreasoning children. They are the offspring of human speculation and prejudiced fancy.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Life is not fair, but one day God's going to settle the score. He's going to right the wrongs. So, who can get better justice - you or God?
Like all great theologies, Bill [O'Reilly]'s can be boiled down to one sentence: There must be a god, because I don't know how things work.
In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take me in.
If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all--both old and young.
strange, there's so much religion in the world, but only enough to make us fight over who is right, not enough to make us love one another.
All that is deformed ought to be reformed. The Word of God alone teaches us what ought to be so, and all reform effected otherwise is vain.
Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning.
Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.
God wants to produce the character of Christ in our lives because he knows that the more we become like him, the more fulfilled we will be.
In a post-modern culture we need an apologetic that is felt and seen because if post-moderns are not feeling it, they are not believing it.
The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.
All art is holy. Not that it is all long-faced and miserable; it can be wild and wooly. But if it transforms you, it is art. And it is holy.
There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.