Religion Quotes
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The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.
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The voice of the people is the voice of God. (Vox populi, vox dei.)
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The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
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The world's shortest sermon: "When in doubt... don't!"
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The writers against religion, while they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
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Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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There are those to whom a sense of religion has come in storm and tempest; there are those whom it has summoned amid scenes of revelry and idle vanity; there are those, too, who have heard its "still small voice" amid rural leisure and placid retirement. But perhaps the knowledge which causeth not to err is most frequently impressed upon the mind during the season of affliction.
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There is a crack in everything God has made.
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There is a good deal too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
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There is something in religion, when rightly apprehended, that is masculine and grand. It removes those little desires which are "the constant hectic of a fool."
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There need not be in religion, or music, or art, or love, or goodness, anything that is against reason; but never while the sun shines will we get great religion, or music, or art, or love, or goodness, without going beyond reason.
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There never was law, or sect, or opinion did so magnify goodness as the Christian religion doth.
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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
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Those who make religion to consist in the contempt of this world and its enjoyments, are under a very fatal and dangerous mistake. As life is the gift of heaven, it is religion to enjoy it. He, therefore, who can be happy in himself, and who contributes all in his power toward the happiness of others, answers most effectually the ends of his creation, is an honor to his nature, and a pattern to mankind.
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Three things are good in little measure and evil in large: yeast, salt and hesitation.
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To all things clergic I am allergic.
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To be of no Church is dangerous.
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