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Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us.

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But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than any other part of him, must have thoughts immortal and divine. If he attain truth, and in so far as human nature is capable of sharing in immortality, he must altogether be immortal.

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You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.

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I am for religion, against religions.

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We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers.

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But in the end all religions point to the same light. In between the light and us, sometimes there are too many rules. The light is here and there are no rules to follow this light.

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All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

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God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips.

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How should I know anything about another world when I know so little of this?

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In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing. But this is mere temporizing. If we wish courageously to pursue the question, we must, of course ask next where God comes from? And if we decide this to be unanswerable, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always existed?

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A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.

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The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

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There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

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To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.

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If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.

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It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

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The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions.

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Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will.

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In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in them. . . . There were the texts; there was no mistaking their meaning; . . . she was doing in all this thing what the Bible had mapped out for her to do. So unassailable was her position that in all the centuries she had no word to say against human slavery.

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