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Men say they are of the same religion, for quietness' sake; but if the matter were well examined, you would scarce find three anywhere of the same religion on all points.

Men will surrender to the spirit of the age. They will say that if they had lived in our day, faith would be simple and easy. But in their day, they will say, things are complex; the Church must be brought up to date and made meaningful to the day's problems.

Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.

Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.

Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian.

Millions of Germans had absolute faith in Hitler. Millions of Russians had faith in Stalin. Millions of Chinese had faith in Mao. Billions have had faith in imaginary gods.

Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.

Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.

Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.

Modernity sees humanity as having ascended from what is inferior to it - life begins in slime and ends in intelligence - whereas traditional cultures see it as descended from its superiors. As the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins put the matter: We are the only people who assume that we have ascended from apes. Everybody else take it for granted that they are descended from gods.

MONSIGNOR- A high ecclesiastical title, of which the Founder of our religion overlooked the advantages.

Morality is your agreement with yourself to abide by your own rules.

Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

More cases of loss of religious faith are to be traced to the theory of evolution. . .than to anything else.

More even than Southern Presbyterians and Southern Methodists, the Baptists provided the great mass of Confederate enlisted men.

Moses, Aaron, Abraham, they're all a waste of time. It's your ass that's on the line.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly.

My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.

Music is my religion.

My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence is provided by such a God. We would be unappreciative of that gift if we suppressed our passion to explore the universe and ourselves.

My fear is not that our great movement, known as the Methodists, will eventually cease to exist or one day die from the earth. My fear is that our people will become content to live without the fire, the power, the excitement, the supernatural element that makes us great.

My God! This is a revolution! We have to offend someone!

My misfortune is my ability to see both sides even of the fundamental religious question.

Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.

Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.

My fear is greater than my faith, but I walk the missionary way.

My friends are so cynical, they refuse to keep the faith.

My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and, I might add, infinitely absurd.

My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.

My religion is kindness.

My position concerning God is that of an agnostic.

My religion is a matter solely between my Maker and myself.

My religion lies in my composition.

My religion teaches me that I should, by my personal conduct, instill into the minds of those who might hold different views the conviction that cow killing is a sin.

My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.

My point is not that religion itself is the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist attacks, but that religion is the principal label, and the most dangerous one, by which a "they" as opposed to a "we" can be identified at all.

My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own.

My religion has no geographical limits.

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

Myth is a tale once believed as truth; believed, it is not myth, but religion. A tale once religiously believed that has come to be called a myth is something of religion corrupted with disbelief. What are beliefs for some societies but myths for others cannot fill spiritual vacancies in the life of those others.

My trust is solely in God. And I trust men only because I trust God. If I had no God to rely upon, I should be like Timon, a hater of my species.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.

Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.