The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.
Dave Barry
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Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Bertrand Russell
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Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best
C.S. Lewis
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Plato
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Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men
Voltaire
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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.
Bishop Desmond Tutu
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People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
Dave Barry
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This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people
John Wycliffe
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Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye
Forever doth accompany mankind,
Hath look'd on no religion scornfully
That men did ever find.
Matthew Arnold
Quotes , Source: Progress (st. 10)
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There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify
goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
Francis Bacon
Quotes , Source: Essays--Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature
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The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the
vicissitude of sects and religions.
Francis Bacon
Quotes , Source: Of Vicissitude of Things
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Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the
mother.
[Lat., Religio peperit divitias et filia devoravit matrem.]
Francis Bacon
Quotes , Source: Of Vicissitude of Things
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And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he
said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
Bible
Quotes , Source: Genesis (ch. IV, v. 9)
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Can such bitterness enter into the heart of the devout?
[Fr., Tant de fiel entre-t-il dans l'ame des devots?]
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Quotes , Source: Lutrin (I, 12)
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No mere man since the Fall, is able in this life perfectly to
keep the Commandments.
Book of Common Prayer
Quotes , Source: Shorter Catechism
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The crooked end obedient spirits draws,
The pointed, those rebels who spurn at Christian laws.
[Lat., Curva trahit mites, pars pungit acuta rebelles.]
Thomas Broughton
Quotes , Source: Dictionary of all Religions
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Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet
From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low,
Lest I should fear and fall, and miss Thee so
Who art not missed by any that entreat.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Quotes , Source: Comfort
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The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience
to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His
declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.
Edmund Burke
Quotes , Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
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But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a
refinement on the principle of resistance, it is the dissidence
of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.
Edmund Burke
Quotes , Source: Speech on Conciliation with America
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The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system,
are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
Edmund Burke
Quotes , Source: A Vindication of Natural Society--Preface (vol. I, p. 7)
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People differ in their discourse and profession about these
matters, but men of sense are really but of one religion
. . . "What religion?" . . . the Earl said, "Men of sense never
tell it."
Bishop Gilbert Burnet
Quotes , Source: History of his Own Times (vol. I, bk. I, sec. 96), footnote by Onslow, referring to Earl of Shaftesb
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