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Rule of religion: purpose breathes even in dirt and stones.

Sacred spirit of love, fall down on me from above.

Sadly, the doctrinal ignorance in the pulpits of today is being replicated in the doctrinal ignorance and indifference of the pews, and the people are not even seeing the picture, much less getting it.

Saints are usually killed by their own people.

Salvation is not a religion. It's not rules or regulations or rituals. Salvation is a relationship. That relationship doesn't begin when you get to Heaven; it begins here on Earth.

Save me from this road I'm on, Jesus take the wheel.

School has no task more important than to teach strict thought, cautious judgment, and logical conclusions, hence it must pay no attention to what hinders these operations, such as religion, for instance.

Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in the different books that I read, I began to doubt of Revelation itself.

Scepticism is the first step towards truth.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.

Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord.

Science can reconstruct Tyrannosaurus Rex from a fossilized bone and a fancied footprint, but it can't reconstruct God from the whole of creation.

Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.

Science is and should be seen as "completely neutral" on the issue of the theistic or atheistic implications of scientific results.

Science is concerned about quantity; religion is concerned about quality. Religion is concerned with the art of how to live life and how to die life.

[Science] is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too.

Science is simply a logical process of discovering truths about the world we live in; the illusion is that science is some sort of a set of strange rules, a religion that speaks algebra or a magical group of incantations and spells.

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

Science is the true theology.

Science is advanced by proposing and testing hypothesis, not by declaring questions unsolvable.

Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building a testable body of knowledge open to rejection or confirmation.

Science leads you to killing people.

Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Science only answers the question, How does it work? Or at most, What's there? Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and religion ask who. Who's in charge here? Who's the author? That's what we really long to know.

Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.

Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance ends. Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.

Scientific evidence for God's existence is being claimed today by theists, many of whom carry respectable scientific or philosophical credentials. He who is neither a she nor an it supposedly answers prayers and otherwise dramatically affects the outcome of events. If these consequences are as significant as believers say, then the effects should be detectable in properly controlled experiments.

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.

Scientists have practical reasons for wishing that religion and science be kept separate. They can see nothing but trouble ... if they venture into the deeply divisive issue of religion - especially when their results tend to support a highly unpopular, atheistic conclusion.

Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

Self-conscious, uncertain, I'm showered by the dust. But the spirit enters into me and I submit to trust.

Self-realization is, in fact, the only religion. For it is the true purpose of religion, no matter how people define their beliefs.

Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

Seventy-two virgins - does that make sense to anyone? And it's an ancient religion, maybe it was misinterpreted? Maybe it's not 72 virgins, maybe it's a 7-foot-2 Persian.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

Should a conflict arise between the witness of the Holy Spirit to the fundamental truth of the Christian faith and beliefs based on argument and evidence, then it is the former which must take precedence over the latter.

"Should I comfort those who do not mourn?" Some preachers are too quick and too willing to hand out pardons to sinners who do not mourn over their crimes!

She was trying to get rid of a religious hangover.

Simply disabling specific critical thinking skills is all that is necessary for the god virus [to take control of a person].

Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.

Sincerity is the indispensable ground of all conscientiousness, and by consequence of all heartfelt religion.

Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.

Sin is not just breaking God's laws; it is breaking His heart.

Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death.

Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists-whether through design or stupidity, I do not know-as admitting that the fossil record includes no transitional forms. Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.

Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.

Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?

Society would not tolerate legislation declaring that the theory that the sun circles the earth be given equal time with the theory of a heliocentric solar system; it should not pay attention to the equally preposterous notions of scientific creationism