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Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.

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He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray

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The first and last lesson of religion is, "The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal." It puts an affront upon nature.

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Religion should be dearer than life itself.

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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

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Where dwells the religion? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought or gesture. They do not dwell or stay atall. Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared up and ended, like London Monument, or the Tower, so that you shall know where to find it, and keep it fixed, as the English do with their things, forevermore; it is passing, glancing, gesticular; it is a traveller, a newness, a surprise, a secret which perplexes them, and puts them out.

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Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.

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Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy.

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The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

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Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.

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When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.

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Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.

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It was through the Hindu religion that I learnt to respect Christianity and Islam.

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The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.

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

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

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

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The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'

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