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If "everybody knows" such-and-such, then it ain't so, by at least ten thousand to one.
Author: Robert Heinlein
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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
Author: Henrik Ibsen
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
Author: H.l. Mencken
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In isolated societies creeds can be preserved. It is where people of different traditions, outlook and creeds mingle freely and exchange ideas that religious beliefs begin to be eroded. No one changes his beliefs without some instigation, some novel experience, some modification of the customary course of things, and in a closed society people believe what all their fellows obviously believe. Only when they are brought into contact with persons whom they respect holding different views do they begin to look at their inherited beliefs critically.
Author: G.a. Wells
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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
Author: Joseph Conrad
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The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
Author: Lynn Lavner
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The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.
Author: Doug Macleod
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Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven.
Author: Robert M. Pirsig
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The church is the great lost and found department.
Author: Sydney Smith
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I hope I never get so old I get religious.
Author: Ingmar Bergman
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I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
Author: Doug Mcleod
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Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.
Author: Butch Hancock
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There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
Author: Louis Kronenberger
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I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
Author: Stephen Roberts
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We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Author: Jonathan Swift
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When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
Author: Bishop Desmond Tutu
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No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
Author: Felix Adler
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In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.
Author: Thomas Campbell Clark
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Author: Victor Hugo
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O God, thy sea is so great, and my boat is so small.
Author: Anonymous
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Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.
Author: Austin O'malley
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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
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The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.
Author: George Dana Boardman
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The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church.
Author: Edwin Percy Whipple
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Author: Matthew Arnold
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Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
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Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
Author: James Harrington
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A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
Author: Madame De Sta‘l
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Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.
Author: Timothy Jones
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The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.
Author: Ferdinand Magellan
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A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for?" he asked. "I am weeping for my sins," said the lad. "You must have little to do," said the man. The next day, they met again. Once more the lad was weeping. "Why do you weep now?" asked the man. "I am weeping because I have nothing to eat," said the lad. "I thought it would come to that," said the man.
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.
Author: Thomas Huxley
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Every time a child says "I don't believe in fairies" there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
Author: James Matthew Barrie
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To say nothing of its holiness or authority, the Bible contains more specimens of genius and taste than any other volume in existence.
Author: Walter S. Landor
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Author: Samuel Butler
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If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow the teachings of the new, he would be insane.
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
Author: Walter Bagehot
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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.
Author: George Earle Buckle
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You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.
Author: Curtis Carlson
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Either God is in the whole of nature, with no gaps, or He's not there at all.
Author: L. A. Coulson
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I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.
Author: Christopher Hampton
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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
Author: Pearl S. Buck
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Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.
Author: Donald Curtis
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It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.
Author: William M. Evarts
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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.
Author: George W. Goethals
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The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.
Author: Vaclav Hlavaty
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Faith is the refusal to panic.
Author: David Martyn Lloyd-jones
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A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it.
Author: Henry Edward Manning
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God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.
Author: Thomas Brooks
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