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There are no good reasons to believe in god.

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.

There are no truths outside the Gates of Eden.

There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.

There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.

The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.

The reason to get in touch with the culture is not to adopt it but to engage it for the same reasons a missionary does... to gain a hearing for the gospel.

... there could be talking bunny rabbits, spiders who write English messages in their webs, and for that matter, melancholy choo-choo trains. There could be, I suppose, but there aren't-so my theory doesn't have to explain them.

There can't be a practical reason for believing something that is not true.

There cannot possibly be a god in heaven watching all of this calmly.

The records of every great religion show the presence of such Supermen, so full of the Divine Life that again and again they have been taken as the very representatives of God Himself.

There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to the power of some authority.

[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.

There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out and since then this lake has always risen higher and higher. Perhaps the very act of renunciation provides us with the strength to bear it ; perhaps man will rise ever higher and higher when he no longer flows out into a God.

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

There is exactly the same degree of possibility and likelihood of the existence of the Christian God as there is of the existence of the Homeric god. I cannot prove that either the Christian god or the Homeric gods do not exist, but I do not think that their existence is an alternative that is sufficiently probable to be worth serious consideration.

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do, that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do, that I have not been able to accomplish.

There is more in this heaven and earth than what the scientist knows and is revealed in the x-ray.

There is no Apocalypse.

There is no god higher than truth.

There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God

There is no [...] higher than the truth.

There is no evidence for a god, no coherent definition of a god, no good argument for a god, good positive arguments against a god, no agreement among believers about the nature or moral principles of a god, and no need for a god. We can live happy, moral, productive lives without such belief, and we can do it better.

There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist, and quite good reasons for believing that they do not exist and never have. It has all been a gigantic waste of time and a waste of life. It would be a joke of cosmic proportions if it weren't so tragic.

There is no language of the holy. The sacred lies in the ordinary.

There is no scientific proof that only scientific proofs are good proofs; no way to prove by the scientific method that the scientific method is the only valid method.

There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

There is no possible source of evil except good.

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

There is not a Musselman alive who would not imagine that he was performing an action pleasing to God and his Holy Prophet by exterminating every Christian on earth, while the Christians are scarcely more tolerant on their side.

There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.

There is not a shadow of right in the general government to intermingle with religion. Its least interference with it would be a most flagrant usurpation.

There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

There is no way you can harmonize neo-Darwinism and Christianity.

There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.

There is obviously a great human need for religion because life seems to be such a mystery.

There is not the slightest question but that the God of the Old Testament is a jealous, vengeful God, inflicting not only on the sinful pagans but even on his Chosen People fire, lighting, hideous plagues and diseases, brimstone, and other curses.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.

There is zero evidence for god.

There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism

There is too much undissolved wrath and punishment in most religions.

The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things... after the weather.

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.