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Myth is a tale once believed as truth; believed, it is not myth, but religion. A tale once religiously believed that has come to be called a myth is something of religion corrupted with disbelief. What are beliefs for some societies but myths for others cannot fill spiritual vacancies in the life of those others.

My trust is solely in God. And I trust men only because I trust God. If I had no God to rely upon, I should be like Timon, a hater of my species.

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.

Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.

Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so that a concept of Him was made possible to human thought.

New knowledge has led to the recognition in the theory of evolution of more than a hypothesis. It is indeed remarkable that this theory has been progressively accepted by researchers, following a series of discoveries in various fields of knowledge. The convergence, neither sought nor fabricated, of the results of work that was conducted independently is in itself a significant argument in favor of this theory.

New Testament Christians witnessed — not because they had to — but because they could not help it.

News for the godless: religion is inescapable. there has never been a human society without some form of worship. And don't point to communist societies like the Soviet Union - they worshipped blue jeans.

Noah took much ridicule building his great arc, but after 40 days and 40 nights he was looking pretty smart.

Nobody is so poor he has nothing to give, and nobody is so rich he has nothing to receive.

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

No distinction seems to be more obvious than that between spiritual and temporal matters. Yet whenever they have been made objects of Legislation, they have clashed and contended with each other, till one or the other has gained the supremacy.

No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle.

No child's behind left.

No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth.

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

No falsehood is so fatal as that which is made an article of faith.

No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.

No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God.

No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong.

None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.

No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.

No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion.

No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history.

No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will have changed and character, not possession of wealth, title or birth, will be the test of merit.

No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started... It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind.

No problem is more crucial for a naturalistic view of the world than the mind-body problem.

No opinion has ever been too errant to become a creed.

No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

Not every day can be an easy one, nor every day fully happy; but even a day of tough going and difficulty can be a good day.

No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion.

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.

Not everybody feels religion the same way. Some it's in their mouth, but some it's like a hope in their blood, their bones.

Not everybody has to sing the melody.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition of his name upon every trifling occasion . . . . To prevent this profanation, such passages are selected from scripture, as contain some important precepts of morality and religion, in which that sacred name is seldom mentioned. Let sacred things be appropriated to sacred purposes.

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.

Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.

Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.

Nothing is perfect in God's perfect plan.

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

Not only is science corrosive to religion, but religion is corrosive to science. It teaches people to be satisfied with trivial non-explanations and blinds them to the wonderful real explanations that we have within our grasp.