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It should not be strange that the values cherished by all the three major religions are the same, since they originate from a common source. For example, Islam, the predominant religion in the Middle East, accepts as an integral part of its religious teachings both the Old and the New Testaments. If this commonality of moral traditions among the world's major religions does not say something about the universality of religion, it does say something about the universality of mankind.

It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal.

It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.

It's the old shell game.

It's true that (many) are praying for a worldwide revival. But it would be more timely, and more scriptural, for prayer to be made to the Lord of the harvest, that He would raise up and thrust forth laborers who would fearlessly and faithfully preach those truths which are calculated to bring about a revival.

It's very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.

It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed (Aquinas).

It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.

It was one time when people thought the value of the fine structure constant was important. Now of course it's still important, of course, as a practical matter,but we now know that the value it has is a function, that in any fundamental theory you derive the fine structure constant as a function of all sorts of mass ratios and so on and it's not really that fundamental.

It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so."

It was through the Hindu religion that I learnt to respect Christianity and Islam.

It will be proper to take a review of the several sources from which governments have arisen, and on which they have been founded.

I want to have a lasting experience with God. Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world, but then I loose it because I get distracted by my petty desires and fears. I want to be with God all the time. But I don't want to be a monk, or totally give up worldly pleasures. I guess what I want to learn is how to leave in this world and enjoy its delights, but also elevate myself to God.

I used love like money, but love doesn't work like money. It is not a commodity. When we barter with it, we all lose. When the church does not love it's enemies, it fuels their rage. It makes them hate us more.

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

I want to see people do more than simply raise their hand when they come to Christ. Where are the totally changed lives?

It would never occur to most of us that 'plants' say anything at all, except in terms of what we read into them, or try to use them for. Yet in their responses to this wonderfully rhythmic and varying earth they are the most expressive of all forms of life.

I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo.

I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.

I want everyone out there in TV land to touch the TV. Touch the back of the TV and get a shock for Jesus.

I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate.

I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if a man committed a sin the extermination of the whole surrounding nation-cattle and all-was likely to happen. I knew that Providence was not particular about the rest, so that He got somebody connected with the one He was after.

I was taught in my religious upbringing to spell God with a dash, G-d. But now my dash is pink.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

I will take no more physick, not even my opiates; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded.

I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it.

I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth.

I would fain ask one of these bigotted Infidels, supposing all the great Points of Atheism... were laid together and formed into a kind of Creed, according to the Opinions of the most celebrated Atheists; I say, supposing such a Creed as this were formed, and imposed upon any one People in the World, whether it would not require an infinitely greater Measure of Faith, than any Set of Articles which they so violently oppose.

Jesus Christ didnt commit the gospel to an advertising agency; He commissioned disciples. And He didnt command them to put up signs and pass out tracts; He said that they would be His witnesses.

[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile to human dignity and liberty.

Jerusalem is old, Jerusalem is new, Jerusalem can hold Moslem, Christian, Jew.

Jesus made it clear that the most important thing in the world is our relationship to God and to others. When we achieve that, everything good will follow.

Jesus was a crackpot.

Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.

...Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of modern psychiatric treatments.

Jesus must have been married to have been called a rabbi.

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

"Jesus said to 5 of 7 churches, "Repent or Else." That should be the focus of every pastor, denomination. We are headed for the OR ELSE.

Just as I am not upset with somebody who has caught a cold, so too I am not upset with somebody who's caught the faith virus.

JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.

Just as it is the province of science to find out what the facts of life are, to classify them and use them to verify or discredit whatever theory may have been advanced concerning them, so it is the province of a living theology to be constantly seeking from God the wit and wisdom that will interpret anew and more truly the parable of life.

Just as the chicken pox virus continues to live quietly in the body after the disease is gone, the god virus may live quietly in the host until something evokes it.

Just because quantum mechanics is weird does not mean that everything that is weird is quantum mechanics.

Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.

Just for being a religion at all you're as complicit as the rest in the retardation of the human intellectual progress.

Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different... More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history!

Just look at the faces of the great Christians! They are the faces of great haters.

Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.

Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!

Kill them all, for God knows His own.