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Dear Pope, send me some hope or a rope.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values.

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred.

Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to the heart.

Did he really choose Tammy to do his work?

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes anyone think theirs is right?

Does any sane man imagine that the church could cease to be missionary and remain the church?

Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.

Dogma? Faith? These are the right and left pillars of every soul-crushing theology. Theosophists have no dogmas, exact no blind faith.

[Dom Juan] believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.

Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.

Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.

Don't be agnostic - be something.

Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.

Doubt . . . impels a search for the truth. It opens the door to knowledge. Faith puts a lock on the door. Indeed, . . . faith anesthetizes the desire to seek knowledge and truth.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.

Early humans, bursting with questions about Nature but with limited understanding of its dynamics, explained things in terms of supernatural persons and person-animals who delivered the droughts and floods and plagues. . . .

Enter into the promises of God. It is your inheritance. You will do more in one year if you are really filled with the Holy Ghost than you could do in fifty years apart from Him.

Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.

Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.

Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.

Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.

Either we shake one another's hands in joy at he victory of Islam in the world, or all of us will turn to eternal life, and martyrdom. In both cases, victory and success are ours.

England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

E.P. Whipple calls fanaticism "religion caricatured," which is a full definition in a word.

Eschew wicked company and associate with saintly persons. Acquire virtue day and night, and always meditate on that which is eternal forgetting that which is temporary.

Evangelical Christians are not sincere. It is all about making money.

Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find the bread.

Eve kissed Able, that's how he got murdered by Cain.

Even a little of dharma saves one from many a pitfall.

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

Even if we don't have a precise idea of exactly what took place at the beginning, we can at least see that the origin of the universe from nothing need not be unlawful or unnatural or unscientific.

even Mademoiselle Neubahr can't make me believe in hell. It doesn't seem a very - witty - solution of the crime-and-punishment situation, does it?

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.

Even thugs cry, but do the Lord care?

EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the damnation of our neighbors.

Even as the unborn babe is in the womb of his mother, these five are fixed as his life destiny: his life span, his activities, his acquisition of wealth and knowledge, and his time of death.

Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.

Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.

Even if we could be certain that one of the world's religions were perfectly true, given the sheer number of conflicting faiths on offer, every believer should expect damnation purely as a matter of probability.

Even of death Christianity has made a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan and the stoical repose of the Indian.

Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise.

Everybody is an atheist in saying that there is a god - from Ra to Shiva - in which he does not believe. All that the serious and objective atheist does is to take the next step and to say that there is just one more god to disbelieve in.

Ever feel like God is a million miles away? The truth is, he's not. Whatever struggle you're going through, you can rest assured you're not alone. You have God in your corner.

Every brand of religion maintains, and is, a permanent mechanism for transmitting ideas and values - whether one regards those values as admirable or ridiculous. Secularist organizations, with their generally looser, nonhierarchical structures, lack the power to hand down and disseminate their heritage in such a systematic way.