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A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.

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When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know.

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It is no coincidence that the Western attraction to sublime landscapes developed at precisely the moment when traditional beliefs in God began to wane.

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Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian.

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

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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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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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I have come to the conclusion that whether or not a person is a religious believer does not matter. Far more important is that they be a good human being.

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At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion.

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

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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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One may say with one's lips: “I believe that the world was created six thousand years ago;” or, “I believe that Jesus flew away into the skies and is sitting on the right hand of the Father;” or, “God is One, and also Three;” — but no one can believe it, because the words have no sense.

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I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.

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The external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal.

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I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.

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

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It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former.

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

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Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

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I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.

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