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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
Author: St. Augustine
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Faith is a continuation of reason.
Author: William Adams
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Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
Author: Demosthenes
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If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.
Author: Luis Bunuel
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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.
Author: Dalai Lama
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I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
Author: Albert Camus
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Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
Author: Albert Einstein
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In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners.
Author: Jonathon Miller
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The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; which proceed sciences which may be called "sciences as one would." For what a man had rather were true he more readily believes. Therefore he rejects difficult things from impatience of research; sober things, because they narrow hope; the deeper things of nature, from superstition; the light of experience, from arrogance and pride; things not commonly believed, out of deference to the opinion of the vulgar. Numberless in short are the ways, and sometimes imperceptible, in which the affections color and infect the understanding.
Author: Francis Bacon
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Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill because they pissed me off.
Author: Anon.
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Beware of the man of one book.
Author: Thomas Aquinas
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Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
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I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...
Author: Emily Bronte
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As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.
Author: Michel De Certeau
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A lot of people say to me, "Why did you kill Christ?" "I dunno... it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know." "We killed him because he didn't want to become a doctor, that's why we killed him.".
Author: Lenny Bruce
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The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.
Author: Stephen King
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You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
Author: Anne Lamott
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How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.
Author: Samuel Beckett
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Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
Author: Miguel De Cervantes
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
Author: Montaigne
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We are what we believe we are.
Author: Benjamin N. Cardozo
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I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
Author: Leo Tolstoy
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When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.
Author: Frank Sinatra
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You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.
Author: Medgar Evers
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I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
Author: Shirley Temple Black
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Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Author: Dylan Thomas
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We are convinced that we are true soul mates. When I was fifteen and praying for my future wife, she was fourteen and praying for her future husband.
Author: Don Buehner
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And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Author: Aeschylus
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A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
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It takes less time to do things right that to explain why you did it wrong.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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It was a hug that said you're not alone. It was a hug that, just when I thought all my strength was used up, and I couldn't go on, renewed me.
Author: Ann W. Compton
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Non-violence is the article of faith.
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
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to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
Author: Ee Cummings
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And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12].
Author: Bible
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Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.
Author: Bible
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It is easier for a camel to pass through they eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.
Author: Bible
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Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord.
Author: Bible
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From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
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Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels. [Hebrews 13:2].
Author: Bible
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For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made... [Romans 1:20].
Author: Bible
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For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
Author: Bible
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
Author: Emily Dickinson
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There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a God or not.
Author: Otto Von Bismarck
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Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are not wrong who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
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In His will is our peace.
Author: Dante (alighieri)
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Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
Author: Nietzsche
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Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1].
Author: Bible
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Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.
Author: Saint Thomas Acquinas
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Author: Albert Einstein
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