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While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to sit in the midst of this world’s sorrows, tasting the coming joy.
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
Prayer is my chief work, and it is by means of it that I carry on the rest.
For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.
Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.
Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.
I left Europe [for India] as a Christian, I discovered I was a Hindu and returned as a Buddhist without ever having ceased to be a Christian.
Liberal Catholics are the worst enemies of the Church.
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.
Islam is not about “we’re better than you”. Rather it is about “let me show you something that is better for you
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find.
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.
If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.
Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion
I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
We have become so accustomed to the religious lie that surrounds us that we do not notice the atrocity, stupidity and cruelty with which the teaching of the Christian church is permeated.
Religion is the opiate of the people.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
God hears and He sees, and you are not alone in your struggles. Remain firm and stable, for God has your deliverance planned.
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.
Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us.
But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed?
I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind.
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support.
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
We should so work as if we were to be saved by our works; and so rely on Jesus Christ, as if we did no works.
Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.
Thus there will be three effects of nearness to Jesus humility, happiness, and holiness.
I don't want to believe. I want to know.
To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.
Christianity is not a spectator sport. It's something in which we become totally involved.
Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.
If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
There is a strain of loneliness infecting many Christians, which only the presence of God can cure.
Islam will win with or without you, but without Islam you will get lost and lose.
Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: By his good character a believer will attain the degree of one who prays during the night and fasts during the day.
This nation under God
Choose, but don't want.
Immerse your soul in love.
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