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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.

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

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

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. . . .

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.

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.

England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous.

Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.

Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.

Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

Every night I talk to God, but he don't say nothing back. I know he protecting me, but I still stay with my gat.

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the President of the United States, and no authority to direct the religious exercises of his constituents.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but if you believe in god, you're wrong.

Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.

Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the wrong committed but by the right conduct.

Every other consideration and plan and emphasis is secondary to that of wielding the forces of prayer.

Every religion oppresses women. I talk about the Koran because I know this book best. It allows for torture and other mistreatment, especially for women. And I despise the Sharia laws. They cannot be changed. They must be thrown out, abolished.

Every politician, every member of the clerical profession, ought to incur the reasonable suspicion of being an interested supporter of false doctrines, who becomes angry at opposition, and endeavors to cast an odium on free inquiry. Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.