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People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation - much like building a mosque at Ground Zero.

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.

People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God himself is mad.

Perhaps not one religion contains all of the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth, and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together.

Perhaps the saddest thing to admit is that those who rejected the Cross have to carry it, while those who welcomed it are so often engaged in crucifying others.

Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.

Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.

Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.

'Physician, heal thyself' is more true in matters religious than mundane.

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

Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.

Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world.

Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice.

Pity! Religion has so seldom found A skilful guide into poetic ground! The flowers would spring where'er she deign'd to stray And every muse attend her in her way.

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it.

Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.

Poltinus the Platonist proves by means of the blossoms and leaves that from the Supreme God, whose beauty is invisible and ineffable, Providence reaches down to the things of earth here below. He points out that these frail and mortal objects could not be endowed with a beauty so immaculate and so exquisitely wrought, did they not issue from the Divinity which endlessly prevades with its invisible and unchanging beauty all things.

Popular religion is a coping mechanism for the anxieties of a dysfunctional social and economic environment.

Politics bereft of religion is absolute dirt, ever to be shunned.

Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology.

Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way.

Prayer alone will overcome the gigantic difficulties which confront the workers in every field.

Pray to God, but row towards shore.

Preach 90% Law and 10% grace.

Praying is begging for an unseen deity to alter the laws of nature for someone admittedly unworthy.

Preaching that is boring is preaching that talks first about us and then only tangentially about God. Preaching that is faithful is preaching that talks first about God and then only secondarily and derivatively talks about us. The God of Scripture is so much more interestingly than we are.

Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray.

Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things.

Priests and conjurors are of the same trade.

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

[priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals.

Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.

Priests and physicians should never look one another in the face. They have no common ground, nor is there any to mediate betweenthem. When the one comes, the other goes. They could not come together without laughter, or a significant silence, for the one's profession is a satire on the other's, and either's success would be the other's failure.

Prophesying is lying professionally.

Properly speaking, all true work is religion.

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

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

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Put up your guards, keep faith in God, I promise you all the world will be ours.

Put your trust in god are the most dangerous words in the English language.

Randomness scares people. Religion is a way to explain randomness.

Quantum mechanics is so counter-intuitive, physicists have never been able to come up with a comfortable picture of how it works.

Radical Christianity is not going on a missions trip or a big conference. Radical Christianity is staying steady for decades.

Radicalization does not happen to young people with a strong grounding in the American Muslim mainstream; increasingly, it happens online, and sometimes abroad, among the isolated and disaffected.