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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.
Author: Matthew Arnold
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.
Author: Francis Bacon
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.
Author: Francis Bacon
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.]
Author: Francis Bacon
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?
Author: Bible
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?]
Author: Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Source: Lutrin (I, 12)
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No mere man since the Fall, is able in this life perfectly to
keep the Commandments.
Author: Book of Common Prayer
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.]
Author: Thomas Broughton
Source: Dictionary of all Religions
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Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant religion.
Author: Sir Thomas Browne
Source: Religio Medici (XXV)
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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.
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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.
Author: Edmund Burke
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.
Author: Edmund Burke
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.
Author: Edmund Burke
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."
Author: Bishop Gilbert Burnet
Source: History of his Own Times (vol. I, bk. I, sec. 96), footnote by Onslow, referring to Earl of Shaftesb
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An Atheist's laugh's a poor exchange
For Deity offended!
Author: Robert Burns
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.
Author: Robert Burns
Source: Epistle to Rev. John M'Math (st. 8)
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One religion is as true as another.
Author: Robert Burton
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.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
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.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
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.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto II, l. 7)
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There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and
true religion.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto II, st. 34)
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His religion at best is an anxious wish,--like that of Rabelais,
a great Perhaps.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
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.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Essays--Voltaire
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I realized that ritual will always mean throwing away something;
Destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Source: Tremendous Trifles--Secret of a Train
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The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown
To saints whose lives are better than his own.
Author: Charles Churchill
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.
Author: Dallin H. Oakes
Source: None
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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.
Author: Thomas Szasz
Source: None
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A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
Author: James Feibleman
Source: None
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The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Author: Sir Richard F Burton
Source: None
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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.
Author: Charles Lamb
Source: None
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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
Author: Carl Sandberg
Source: None
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A cult is a religion with no political power.
Author: Tom Wolfe
Source: None
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The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Author: Thomas Paine
Source: None
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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.
Author: D H Lawrence
Source: None
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Author: Matthew Arnold
Source: None
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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.
Author: Albert Einstein
Source: None
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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
Source: None
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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Author: Arthur Shopenhauer
Source: None
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Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.
Author: Mohammed Neguib
Source: None
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Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Source: None
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Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
Source: None
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The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands unparalleled in the history of nations.
Author: George Washington
Source: None
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A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds to religion.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: None
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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
Source: None
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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
Author: H. L. Mencken
Source: None
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