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The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.
There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.
To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.
I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.
I dislike religion quite intensely. It's been the cause of all the grief in the world ever since they discovered the first stone to worship.
God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.
I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension.
The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.
Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other.
Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.
Because every day of your life was written on God's calendar before you were born, everything that happens to you has spiritual significance.
I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.
The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.
What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
You don't bring glory or pleasure to God by hiding your abilities or by trying to be someone else. You only bring him enjoyment by being you.
Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
I think there's an opportunity hopefully for religion to be not so much used as a cudgel but invoked as a way of calling us to higher values.
One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.
I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?
The three kinds of services you generally find in the Episcopal churches. I call them either low-and-lazy, broad-and-hazy, or high-and-crazy.
Asking about a time before the beginning of our spherical spacetime is like asking what lies north of the North Pole. There is no such thing.
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence
Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.
The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.
The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.
Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics/ And the Catholics hate the Protestants/ And the Hindus hate the Muslims/ And everybody hates the Jews.
The deeper question... is not whether ancient religious forms can reform... but whether new forms of nature-related spirituality might emerge.
We should always speak what would please the man of whom we expect a favour,like the hunter who sings sweetly when he desires to shoot a deer.
Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.
The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.
Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best.
I have the highest respect for the concept of 'Advait' - the oneness of all humans - that is central to Indian culture, thought, and religion.
I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.
Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . . .
Religion as a whole specializes in sin management. It's all about organizing humanity in such a way that we cause as little damage as possible.
Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.
Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion.
There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do, that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do, that I have not been able to accomplish.
The loneliest moment in life is when you have just experienced that which you thought would deliver the ultimate, and it has just let you down.
The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.
The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.
NIRVANA- In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it.