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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.

Where did God come from? If we decide this is an unanswerable question why not save a step and conclude that the origin of the universe is an unanswerable question.

Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.

Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull.

Where the Bible is esteemed as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, preaching can flourish. But where the Bible is treated merely as a record of valuable religious insight, preaching dies.

Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting "Jesus Christ," so that it would read "A departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;" the insertion was rejected by the great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mohammedan, the Hindoo and Infidel of every denomination.

Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.

Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by.

Which is the more believable of the two, Moses or China?

Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?

Which is the best religion? [...] The religion that brings you closest to God.

While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.

while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.

Whilst you live a very little religion seems enough; but believe me, it requires a great deal when you come to die.

Who are beneficiaries of the Court's protection? Members of various minorities including criminals, atheists, homosexuals, flag burners, illegal immigrants (including terrorists), convicts, and pornographers.

Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?

Who knows most, doubts most.

Who will say with confidence that sexual abuse is more permanently damaging to children than threatening them with the eternal and unquenchable fires of hell?

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.

Why do I feel you hear these prayers of mine, when so many ought to be ahead of me in line?

Why should I hate someone on the basis of their religion, when I can take a little time to get to know them and hate them for a myriad of real reasons.

Wicca has been, up until the past decade or so, a closed religion, but no more.

Why, the only reason for religion is that it can make you, keep you safe. If religion weren't true, then there would be no salvation, no comfort for being alive and alone, there would be nothing but living and dying - no, that cannot be so ... of course religion is true and will save me.

Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love.

Without doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built.

With faith and love God's given, springing from the hope we know. We will pray the joy you'll live in, is the strength that now you show.

Without fear of contradiction, I can safely say that every step in progress that woman has made she has been assailed by ecclesiastics, that her most vigilant unwearied opponents have always been the clergy.

Without God there would be no freedom to believe what you want.

Without God, I don't see how folks cope.

Without implementation, all of our Bible studies are worthless.

Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.

Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy.

Women, children, Tyroleans and preachers want to create a new kingdom of God, but the God of their kingdom looks like women, children, preachers, and Tyrolians.

With the power of soul, anything is possible.

Women have babies and men provide the support. If you don't like the way we're made you've got to take it up with God.

Work without contemplation is never enough.

Wondering if God loves us when we're cheating? Oh, but why he lets us feel things, if it's wrong.

Won't you look down upon me Jesus, you've got to help me make a stand. You just got to see me through another day.

Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wanted to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.

You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.

Yin and Yang control man's actions, and both extremes are a natural reaction.

Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies and contradictions called the Holy Bible! This is the rubbish called Revealed Religion!

You can do amazing things if you have strong faith, deep desire, and just hang in there.

You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person has got to believe in evolution.

You can't get through seminary and come out believing in God!

You cannot coherently affirm the Christian-truth claim and the dominant model of evolutionary theory at the same time.

You get religion as your hair turns grey.

You don't even know the sequences to the Human-Gnome Project, you haven't come to terms with your God yet.