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A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.

A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes in it, cannot speak otherwise than religiously.

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

A man with God is always in the majority.

A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.

Among German historians, there's really not much debate about whether or not Hitler was a social Darwinist. He clearly was drawing on Darwinian ideas.

An America that is militarily and economically strong is not enough. The world must see an America that is morally strong with a creed and a vision. This is what has led us to dare and achieve. For us, values count.

... And God, who studies each separate soul, out of commonplace lives makes his beautiful whole.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.

And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion; and then there's science; and there's-and then there's friendly gossip. Those are the three-the three great things.

And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.

And we find from Church history that the primitive Christians thus understood it; for that women did actually speak and preach amongst them we have indisputable proof.

And to read the Bible without horror, we must undo everything that is tender, sympathizing and benevolent in the heart of man.

And what marvelous things there are for which to be grateful in God's great Creation!

And while Protestant reformers broke with Rome on a variety of counts, their treatment of their fellow human beings was no less disgraceful. Public executions were more popular than ever: heretics were still reduced to ash, scholars were tortured and killed for impertinent displays of reason, and fornicators were murdered without a qualm.

An infinite God ought to be able to protect Himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures.

An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

An injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.

An old argument with me is that the true religious force in the world is not the church, but the world itself: the mysterious callings of Nature and our responses.

Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.

And what is the religion of many persons but a kind of demonism that delights in human sacrifices and causes them to look with horror on the greatest part of mankind? Plutarch, it is well known, has observed very justly that it is better not to believe in a god than to believe him to be a capricious and malevolent being.

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

An operation that eventually kills may be technically successful, and the man may die cured; and so a description of religion thatshowed it to be madness might first show how real and warm it was, so that if it perished, at least it would perish understood.

Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist.

Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.

Anyone who does anything for pleasure to indulge his selfish soul will surely burn in Hell.

A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.

Any spirit that permits compromise with the world is a false spirit. Any religious movement that imitates the world in any of its manifestations is false to the cross of Christ and on the side of the devil.

Any time you get serious about using your life the way God wants you to use it, there are going to be people who oppose it.

... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the fetters of his selfish desires and is preoccupied with thoughts, feelings, and aspirations to which he clings because of their superpersonal value.

A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge.

A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy; - nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded: for then it would be mere History.

A religion addresses the longing in us to have that said from which we can go on to speak of next and next things rightly, in their immediate time - the telling of what came first and before done forever.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

Any strategy that attempts to reinforce faith by undermining science is also doomed to failure. Showing that some scientific theory is wrong will not prove that the religious alternative is correct by default. When the sun was shown not to be the center of the universe, as Copernicus had proposed, the Earth was not moved back to that singular position in the cosmos. If Darwinian evolution is proved wrong, biologists will not develop a new theory based on the hypothesis that each species was created separately by God 6,000years ago.

Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.

Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion.

A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false.

A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb.

A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets.

A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.

Art is my God, Music is my religion.

A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human, will never command belief in the realm of the superhuman.

As for those who protest that I am robbing people of the great comfort and consolation they gain from Christianity, I can only say that Christianity includes hell, eternal torture for the vast majority of humanity, for most of your relatives and friends. . . . If I could feel that I had robbed anybody of his faith in hell, I should not be ashamed or regretful.

As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.

As for our gods, we have a few too many to be true.

As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion.

Ask for what you want, but be willing to take what God gives you. It may be better than what you asked for.