An Atheist's laugh's a poor exchange
For Deity offended!
Robert Burns
Quotes , Source: Epistle to a Young Friend
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G-- knows I'm no the thing I should be,
Nor am I even the thing I could be,
But twenty times I rather would be
An atheist clean,
Than under gospel colours hid be,
Just for a screen.
Robert Burns
Quotes , Source: Epistle to Rev. John M'Math (st. 8)
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One religion is as true as another.
Robert Burton
Quotes , Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (bk. III, sec. IV, memb. 2, subsec, 1)
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As if Religion were intended
For nothing else but to be mended.
Samuel Butler (1)
Quotes , Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 205)
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Synods are mystical Bear-gardens.
Where Elders, Deputies, Church-wardens,
And other Members of the Court,
Manage the Babylonish sport.
Samuel Butler (1)
Quotes , Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto II, l. 1095)
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So 'ere the storm of war broke out,
Religion spawn'd a various rout
Of petulant capricious sects,
That maggots of corrupted texts,
That first run all religion down,
And after every swarm its own.
Samuel Butler (1)
Quotes , Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto II, l. 7)
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His religion at best is an anxious wish,--like that of Rabelais,
a great Perhaps.
Thomas Carlyle
Quotes , Source: Essays--Burns
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On the whole we must repeat the often repeated saying, that it is
unworthy a religious man to view an irreligious one either with
alarm or aversion; or with any other feeling than regret, and
hope, and brotherly commiseration.
Thomas Carlyle
Quotes , Source: Essays--Voltaire
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The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown
To saints whose lives are better than his own.
Charles Churchill
Quotes , Source: Epistle to Hogarth (l. 25)
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Those who are used to a clergy take very lightly those who do not have a formal divinity degree: like Paul and Peter and James and John.
Dallin H. Oakes
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Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
Thomas Szasz
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I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
Charles Lamb
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The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Thomas Paine
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It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
D H Lawrence
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Matthew Arnold
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My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Albert Einstein
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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.
Dalai Lama
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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Arthur Shopenhauer
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Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.
Mohammed Neguib
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