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• I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.

  Galileo Galilei

  Spiritual, Atheist, Believe

  "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina". Essay by Galileo Galilei, 1615.

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• The story of Jesus Christ appearing after he was dead is the story of an apparition, such as timid imaginations can always create in vision, and credulity believe. Stories of this kind had been told of the assassination of Julius Caesar.

  Thomas Paine

  Jesus, Believe, Imagination

  Thomas Paine (1830). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.138

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• For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.

  Albert Einstein

  Atheist, Atheism, Superstitions

  "Einstein 'God' letter to sell on eBay, with bidding starting at $3M", www.foxnews.com. October 4, 2012.

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• Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.

  Muhammad Ali

  Religious, Greatness, Lakes

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• I have encountered a few "creationists" and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide whether they were really mad or only pretending to be mad. If I was a religious person, I would consider creationism nothing less than blasphemy. Do its adherents imagine that God is a cosmic hoaxer who has created the whole vast fossil record for the sole purpose of misleading humankind?

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Religious, Nice, Intelligent

  "Presidents, Experts, and Asteroids". Essay by Arthur C. Clarke for journal "Science" (pp. 1532-1533), June 5, 1998.

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• Freedom of religion is one of the greatest gifts of God to man, without distinction of race and color. He is the author and lord of conscience, and no power on earth has a right to stand between God and the conscience.

  Philip Schaff

  Men, Race, Color

  Philip Schaff (1888). “Church and State in the United States ; Or, The American Idea of Religious Liberty and Its Practical Effects: With Official Documents”

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• See, then, how powerful religion is; it commands the heart, it commands the vitals. Morality,--that comes with a pruning-knife, and cuts off all sproutings, all wild luxuriances; but religion lays the axe to the root of the tree. Morality looks that the skin of the apple be fair; but religion searcheth to the very core.

  Nathaniel Culverwell

  Powerful, Heart, Cutting

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• Religion, which true policy befriends,
  Designed by God to serve man's noblest ends,
  Is by that old deceiver's subtle play
  Made the chief party in its own decay,
  And meets the eagle's destiny, whose breast
  Felt the same shaft which his own feathers drest.

  Katherine Philips

  Party, Destiny, Men

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• A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes in it, cannot speak otherwise than religiously.

  J. G. Holland

  Inspiration, Men, Speak

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.78

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• A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.

  J. G. Holland

  Real, Men, Slavery

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• My idea of the Christian religion is, that it is an inspiration and its vital consequences--an inspiration and a life--God's life breathed into a man and breathed through a man--the highest inspiration and the highest life of every soul which it inhabits; and, furthermore, that the soul which it inhabits can have no high issue which is not essentially religious.

  J. G. Holland

  Christian, Religious, Inspiration

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.77

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• Religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root and practical in its fruits; a communion with God, a calm and deep enthusiasm, a love which radiates, a force which acts, a happiness which overflows.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Roots, Enthusiasm, Fruit

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• It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.

  Owen Feltham

  Religious, Men, Riches

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• All natural results are spontaneous. The diamond sparkles without effort, and the flowers open impulsively beneath the summer rain. And true religion is a spontaneous thing,--as natural as it is to weep, to love, or to rejoice.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Summer, Rain, Flower

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• He whom God chooseth, out of doubt doth well:
  What they that choose their God do, who can tell?

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Doubt, Wells

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• Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Men, Clergymen

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• Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Progress, Identity, Facts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2771, Delphi Classics

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• The duties of religion, sincerely and regularly performed, will always be sufficient to exalt the meanest and to exercise the highest understanding.

  Samuel Johnson

  Exercise, Understanding, Duty

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.105

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• Religion is no more national than conscience.

  Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau

  Conscience

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• Creation science has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand why it is false. What could be more destructive of that most fragile yet most precious commodity in our entire intellectual heritage-good teaching-than a bill forcing our honorable teachers to sully their sacred trust by granting equal treatment to a doctrine not only known to be false, but calculated to undermine any general understanding of science as an enterprise?.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Teacher, Teaching, Science

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• Each of the world religions has its own particular genius, its own special insight into the nature and requirements of compassion, and has something unique to teach us.

  Karen Armstrong

  Sympathy, Unique, Compassion

  Karen Armstrong (2011). “Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life”, p.56, Random House

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• If we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls, without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, without schools and theatres; but a city without a temple, or that practiseth not worship, prayer, and the like, no one ever saw.

  Plutarch

  Kings, Prayer, Wall

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• Religion is fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated.

  Joseph Joubert

  Fire, Example, Alive

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?

  Joseph Joubert

  Virtue

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• Religion is a way of walking, not a way of talking.

  William Inge

  Talking, Way, Walking

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