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How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

However noble their purpose, we must beware of institutionalized methods that indoctrinate and regiment and fashion every Christian into a common evangelistic mold.

How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost ?

How many evangelism programs have you encountered in which sharing the gospel assumes no relationship with the customer and Jesus is sold like soap?

How wise are Thy commandments O Lord. Each one of them applies to somebody or other I know.

Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident.

Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.

Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.

Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality.

Hurting people is my business.

I acknowledge myself a unitarian

I advocate the abolition of all religions, without setting up anything new of the kind.

I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.

I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be said about it: no evidence, no belief.

I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).

I am arguing that faith as such, faith as an alleged method of acquiring knowledge, is totally invalid and as a consequence, all propositions of faith, because they lack rational demonstration, must conflict with reason.

I am no Platonist, I am nothing at all; but I would sooner be a Paulician, Manichean, Spinozist, Gentile, Pyrrhonian, Zoroastrian, than one of the seventy-two villainous sects who are tearing each other to pieces for the love of the Lord and hatred of each other.

I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.

I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.

I am for religion, against religions.

I am not a Jew in the synagogue and a feminist in the world. I am a Jewish feminist and a feminist Jew in every moment of my life.

I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Almighty Creator. By fighting the Jews, I am doing the Lord's work.

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.

I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.

I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary religious being. In the most practical of all matters he will talk and speculate and try to feel, but he will not set himself to do.

I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted.

I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.

I am simply an agnostic. I haven't yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don't know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.

I am very hostile to religion because it is enormously dominant, especially in American life. And I don't buy the argument that, well, it's harmless. I think it is harmful, partly because I care passionately about what's true.

I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.

I bargained for salvation and they gave me a lethal dose.

I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.

I began to expand my personal service in the church, and to search more diligently for a closer relationship with God among my different business, professional and political interests.

I believe absolutely and certainly that, when you die, you will meet your loved ones and know them and be reunited with them, never to be seperated again.

I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That's not the way it is today, not even in Sweden.

I believe I never was more acceptable to my Master than when I was standing to teach those hearers in the open fields. I now preach to ten times more people than I would if I had been confined to the churches.

I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God, and that's what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards.

I believe that the imperative need of the day is not simply revival, but a radical reformation that will go to the root of our moral and spiritual maladies and deal with causes rather than with consequences, with the disease rather than with symptoms.

I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations.

I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.

I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are IMPOSSIBLE.

I believe this notion of separation of church and state was the figment of some infidel's imagination.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.

I call God ECCO (Earth Coincidence Control Office) . It's much more satisfying to call it that. A lot of people accept this and they don't know that they're just talking about God. I finally found a God that was big enough. As the astronomer said to the Minister, My God's astronomical. The Minister said, How can you relate to something so big? The astronomer said, Well, that isn't the problem, your God's too small!

I believe that whether a person follows any religion or not is unimportant, he or she must have a good heart, a warm heart.

I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting.

I b'lieve in religion, and one of these days, when I've got matters tight and snug, I calculates to tend to my soul.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.