Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes, Hands Quotes, Religion Quotes

Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione quidem violari fas fuit.]

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I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.

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Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.

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There are innumerable definitions of God because his manifestations are innumerable.

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The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion, and making way for truth.

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True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most.

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Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.

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No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will have changed and character, not possession of wealth, title or birth, will be the test of merit.

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A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge.

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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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A certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods.

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Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]

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A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

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All religions were, at bottom, one, though they differed in detail and outward form like the leaves on a tree.

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The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

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God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!

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Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

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Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.

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Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.

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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

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