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Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!

Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Let's quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.

Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.

Let us use our energy and our initiative to solve our problems without relying on prayers and wishful thinking. When we have faith in ourselves, we will find we do not have to have faith in gods.

Life is not fair, but one day God's going to settle the score. He's going to right the wrongs. So, who can get better justice - you or God?

Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods.

Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

Luke [the gospel writer] screws up his dating by tactlessly mentioning events that historians are capable of independently checking. There was indeed a census under Governor Quirinius - a local census, not one decreed by Caesar Augustus for the Empire as a whole - but it happened too late in 6 AD, long after Herod's death.

Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

Luminous, unfearful; high-priestesses, our fervour shall banish all evil.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our ears, before we should wake from our trance and hear the warning and see that to lose oneself in all, is the only way to find oneself.

Mankind ought to be taught that religions are but the varied expressions of THE RELIGION, which is Oneness, so that each may choose the path that suits him best.

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.

Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.

Kill them all, for God knows His own.

Leftist organizations are aggressively attempting to redefine America in their own Godless image.

Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?

Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the name of the God Ram-Ram-Ram (etc. with or without charm) on their fingers; or honour Vishnu with his thousand names of invocation, Allah with his ninety-nine; or they may make use of the prayer-wheels and the rosary: the main thing is that they are settled down for a time at this work and are tolerable to look at. This kind of prayer has been invented for the benefit of the pious who have thought and elevations of their own.

Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.

Lucifer comes to give to us the final gift of wholeness. If we accept it then he is free and we are free. This is the Luciferic initiation. It is one that many people now, and in the days ahead, will be facing, for it is an initiation in the New Age.

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.

Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion

Man is the measure of all things.

Many New Testament scholars have observed that the conception of the resurrection body implied in 1 Corinthians 15 clashes so violently with that presupposed in the gospels that the latter must be dismissed as secondary embellishments, especially as 1 Corinthians predates the gospels.

Marriage is like a hot bath; once you get used to it, it ain't so hot.

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

‎"Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.

Matthew and Luke handle the problem differently, by deciding that Jesus must have been born in Bethlehem after all. But they get him there by different routes.

Maybe Hell ain't a place meant for us to Burn, maybe Earth is Hell and just a place for us to Learn.

May they rest in eternal peace.

Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord.

Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.

Men say they are of the same religion, for quietness' sake; but if the matter were well examined, you would scarce find three anywhere of the same religion on all points.

Men will surrender to the spirit of the age. They will say that if they had lived in our day, faith would be simple and easy. But in their day, they will say, things are complex; the Church must be brought up to date and made meaningful to the day's problems.

Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.

Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.

Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian.

Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.