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Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion

Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our ears, before we should wake from our trance and hear the warning and see that to lose oneself in all, is the only way to find oneself.

Mankind ought to be taught that religions are but the varied expressions of THE RELIGION, which is Oneness, so that each may choose the path that suits him best.

Man is the measure of all things.

Many New Testament scholars have observed that the conception of the resurrection body implied in 1 Corinthians 15 clashes so violently with that presupposed in the gospels that the latter must be dismissed as secondary embellishments, especially as 1 Corinthians predates the gospels.

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.

Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.

Marriage is like a hot bath; once you get used to it, it ain't so hot.

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches.

‎"Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.

Matthew and Luke handle the problem differently, by deciding that Jesus must have been born in Bethlehem after all. But they get him there by different routes.

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

Maybe Hell ain't a place meant for us to Burn, maybe Earth is Hell and just a place for us to Learn.

Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord.

May they rest in eternal peace.

Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

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

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.

Music is my religion.

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

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

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

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