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Evolution ... is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.

Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely extends to other fields as well.

Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology. Intelligent design is not a scientific concept.

Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.

Exhorting his students: Be faithful to the moral principles of your religion.

Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life.

Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level.

Faith in God necessarily implies a lack of faith in humanity.

Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.

Experiments on split-brain patients reveal how readily the left brain interpreter can make up stories and beliefs. In one experiment, for example, when the word walk was presented only to the right side of a patient's brain, he got up and started walking. When he was asked why he did this, the left brain (where language is stored and where the word walk was not presented) quickly created a reason for the action: I wanted to go get a Coke.

Faith is our relation not to what we possess but to what possesses us.

Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none.

Faith is the problem. Faith is unreliable way to think about problems that will not lead to the truth.

Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.

Faith is often the boast of the man who is too lazy to investigate.

Faith is a euphemism for prejudice and religion is a euphemism for superstition.

Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.

Faith: Pretending to know things you don't know.

Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.

Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.

Fear is the mother of all gods.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

Far from being hostile to religion is capable of rendering religion important services.

Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection of faith and salvation as presented by Jesus in the Gospels.

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

First inclination is to become a monk and leave the situation.

Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching.

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.

First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.

Finding that no religion was based upon facts, but that all of them were in opposition to facts, and could not therefore be true, I began to reflect upon what must be the condition of mankind, trained from infancy to believe in these errors, and to make them the rule of their conduct.

For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.

Fly with me, touch the face of the true God. And then cry with joy at the depth of my love.

...for limited purposes only, let me define religion as a set of symbolic forms and acts which relate man to the ultimate conditions of his existence.

For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.

For many people - from secular feminists to observant Jews - the notion of a feminist Judaism is an oxymoron.

For man may pious texts repeat, And yet religion have no inward seat

For me, the best time to pray is the very moment a tense situation or an unspiritual attitude overtakes me. God the Holy Spirit is always there, ready to help me gain victory in the spiritual battles I face-big or small.

For most cosmologists, a supernatural God is an unnecessary hypothesis. For most Americans, He is an unassailable fact. The American belief machine apparently has a fail-safe component. Nothing shuts it down.

For my generation I must have the oracles of God in fresh terms.

For one man who thanks God that he is not as other men there are a thousand to offer thanks that they are as other men, sufficiently as others are to escape attention.

For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil in men; their repugnance to wrong disinclines them to commit wrongful acts; they shun the unrighteous and are drawn to the upright.

Found a shaman in a diaper with a poppy pot. When I asked if he was cold, he said just think hot.

...Freedom arises from the multiplicity of sects, which prevades America and which is the best and only security for religious liberty in any society. For where there is such a variety of sects, there cannot be a majority of any one sect to oppress and persecute the rest.

Freedom is a new religion, the religion of our time.

Freethought is respectable. Freethought is crucial. Freethought needs to be publicized.

For centuries, the mystics of spirit had existed by running a protection racket - by making life on earth unbearable, then charging you for consolation and relief, by forbidding all the virtues that make existence possible, then riding on the shoulders of your guilt, by declaring production and joy to be sins, then collecting blackmail from the sinners.

From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.

From a biological viewpoint, patriarchal religion denied women the natural rights of every other mammalian female: the right to choose her stud, to control the circumstances of her mating, to occupy and govern her own nest, or to refuse all males when preoccupied with the important business of raising her young.

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.