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I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.

It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man. It is assuredly no part of religion to compel religion, to which free will and not force should lead us.

It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no God... Were a man impressed as fully and strongly as he ought to be with the belief of a God, his moral life would be regulated by the force of belief; he would stand in awe of God and of himself, and would not do the thing that could not be concealed from either.

It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They have also fabricated pious fraud. Most believers in a religion understand this when examining the claims of other religions.

It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found.

It is a mystery to me how a theologian can be praised for having brought himself to disbelieve dogmas. I've always thought that those who have brought themselves to believe in dogmas merit the true recognition owing a heroic deed.

It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're the right religion.

It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.

It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.

It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.

[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

It is clearly absurd that it should be possible for a woman to qualify as a saint with direct access to the Almighty, while she may not qualify as a curate.

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

It is difficulties that show what men are. For the future, in case of any difficulty, remember that God, like a gymnastic trainer, has pitted you against a rough antagonist. For what end? That you may be an Olympic conqueror; and this cannot be without toil.

It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.

It is either all of Christ or none of Christ! I believe we need to preach again a whole Christ to the world - a Christ who does not need our apologies, a Christ who will not be divided, a Christ who will either be Lord of all or will not be Lord at all!

It is far better that we admitted a thousand devils to roam at large than that we permitted one such imposter and monster as Moses, Joshua, Samuel, and the Bible prophets, to come with the pretended word of God and have credit among us.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former.

It is imperative that preachers of today learn how to declare the spritual law of God; for, until we learn how to wound consciences, we shall have no wounds to bind with Gospel bandages.

It is hard to think of anything more vile than to intentionally desecrate the Body of Christ.

It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience.

[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

It is impossible to devise a scientific experiment to describe the creation process, or even to ascertain whether such a process can take place. The Creator does not create at the whim of a scientist.

it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists

It is in the area of feeling that religion enters the heart and is expressed by man.

It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who says:Who is more ungodly than I, that I may rejoice in his teaching?

It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion.

It is no coincidence that the Western attraction to sublime landscapes developed at precisely the moment when traditional beliefs in God began to wane.

It is no marvel that the devil does not love field preaching! Neither do I; I love a commodious room, a soft cushion, a handsome pulpit. But where is my zeal if I do not trample all these underfoot in order to save one more soul?

It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows.

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.

It is to the press mankind are indebted for having dispelled the clouds which so long encompassed religion, for disclosing her genuine lustre, and disseminating her salutary doctrines.

It is the duty of every Christian to be Christ to his neighbor.

It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage...Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.

It is the things for which there is no evidence that are believed with passion.

It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.

It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.

It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

It is useless for large companies of believers to spend long hours begging God to send revival. Unless we intend to reform we may as well not pray. Unless praying men have the insight and faith to amend their whole way of life to conform to the New Testament pattern there can be no true revival.

It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.

It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin.

It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are.

It means nothing to be open to a proposition we don't understand.

It should not be strange that the values cherished by all the three major religions are the same, since they originate from a common source. For example, Islam, the predominant religion in the Middle East, accepts as an integral part of its religious teachings both the Old and the New Testaments. If this commonality of moral traditions among the world's major religions does not say something about the universality of religion, it does say something about the universality of mankind.

It ought not to be unpleasant to say that which one honestly believes or disbelieves. That it so constantly is painful to do so, is quite enough obstacle to the progress of mankind in that most valuable of all qualities, honesty of word or of deed.

It's amazing how much you can get done if you don't worry about who gets the credit.