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The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on the marvelous; but it would have approached nearer to the idea of a miracle if Jonah had swallowed the whale.

The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.

The strength of a country is the strength of its religious convictions.

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.

...the synagogin', the tabernaclin', the psalmin', that goes on in this hoose, that's enough to break the spirits o' ony young creature.

The tavern will compare favorably with the church. The church is the place where prayers and sermons are delivered, but the tavernis where they are to take effect, and if the former are good, the latter cannot be bad.

The teachings of Christianity - from vicarious redemption to the love of enemies, no thought for the morrow need be taken, that no thrift or care or family or society or solidarity is necessary - these are immoral teachings that have done and continue to inflict untold moral and physical harm on our species. And until we outgrow this nonsense, we have no chance of emancipating ourselves.

The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.

The theist must present an intelligible description of god. Until he does so, god makes no more sense than unie; both are cognitively empty, and any attempt at proof is logically absurd.

The test of a man's conversion is whether he has enough Christianity to get it to other people. If he hasn't, there is something wrong.

The thesis that the universe has an originating divine cause is logically inconsistent with all extant definitions of causality and with a logical requirement upon these and all possible valid definitions or theories of causality.

The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seems rather incorrect. This is what should be. Now, if you're taught to live up to a what should be that never existed - only an occult superstition, no proof of this should be - then you can sit on a jury and indict easily, you can cast the first stone, you can burn Adolf Eichmann, like that!

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

The three kinds of services you generally find in the Episcopal churches. I call them either low-and-lazy, broad-and-hazy, or high-and-crazy.

The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.

The trilogy composed of politics, religion and sex is the most sensitive of all issues in any society.

The trouble with God isn't that He so seldom makes Himself known to us... He's holding you and me and everybody else by the scruff of the neck practically _constantly... Contentedly adrift in the cosmos, were you?... That is a perfect description of a non-epiphany, that rarest of moments, when God Almighty lets go of the scruff of your neck and lets you be human for a little while.

The true contrast between science and religion is that science unites the world and makes it possible for people of widely differing backgrounds to work together and to cooperate. Religion, on the other hand, by its very claim to know “The Truth” through “revelation,” is inherently divisive and a creator of separatism and hostility.

The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.

The true man of God is heartsick, grieved at the worldliness of the Church, grieved at the toleration of sin in the Church, grieved at the prayerlessness in the Church. He is disturbed that the corporate prayer of the Church no longer pulls down the strongholds of the devil.

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.

The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

The truth taught by Jesus Christ is the right way to live.

The twentieth century provides little or no evidence in any corner of the globe to support the contention that religion causes most human conflict.

The ultimate verification of our religion consists of the changed lives to which it can point and for which it is responsible.

The unconscious psyche believes in life after death

The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.

The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.

The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.

The universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist.

The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy.

The unbeliever imagines that religion pretends to offer answers, while the believer knows that the only promise it makes is to multiply questions.

The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation.

The very admission of the need to harmonize is an admission that the burden of proof is on the narratives, not on those who doubt them. What harmonizing shows is that despite appearances, the texts still might be true.

The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.

The visible world is the invisible organization of energy.

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

The whole of natural theologyresolves itself into one simple, though somewhat ambiguous proposition, That the cause or causesof order in the universe probably bear some remote analogy to human intelligence.

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.

The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.

The whole [of religion] is a riddle, an ænigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the onlyresult of our most accurate scrutiny, concerning this subject.

The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a point, he will contemplate something else instead.

The work that Christ started but could not finish, I - Adolf Hitler - will conclude.

The works of nature and the works of revelation display religion to mankind in characters so large and visible that those who are not quite blind may in them see and read the first principles and most necessary parts of it and from thence penet into those infinite depths filled with the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

The wisdom that living brings, since I got a telegram from the God of simple things.

The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses.

The word 'religion' takes on a sinister cast when one examines its root, religare, meaning 'to bind,' which in turn means 'to hold, to make prisoner, to restrain.