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| Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope |
| Robert Green Ingersoll |
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| Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I inquire after no man's and trouble none with mine; nor is it given to us in this life to know whether yours or mine, our friend's or our foe's, are exactly the |
| Thomas Jefferson |
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| People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place. |
| Irving Kristol |
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| Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly. (Hebrews 13:18) |
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| Recite that which has been revealed to you of the Book and keep up prayer; surely prayer keeps (one) away from indecency and evil, and certainly the remembrance of Allah is the greatest, and Allah knows what you do. (The Spider 29.45) |
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| Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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| Religion becomes. a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection. |
| Abraham Maslow |
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| Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain |
| Mark Twain |
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| Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin. |
| Anatole France |
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| Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. |
| George Santayana |
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| Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism |
| William James |
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| Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. |
| Sigmund Freud |
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| Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. |
| Edmund Burke |
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| Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and above all, love of the truth |
| Henry Louis Mencken |
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| Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. |
| Seneca |
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| Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. |
| Bertrand Russell |
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