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Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it.

Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.

Politics bereft of religion is absolute dirt, ever to be shunned.

Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology.

Poltinus the Platonist proves by means of the blossoms and leaves that from the Supreme God, whose beauty is invisible and ineffable, Providence reaches down to the things of earth here below. He points out that these frail and mortal objects could not be endowed with a beauty so immaculate and so exquisitely wrought, did they not issue from the Divinity which endlessly prevades with its invisible and unchanging beauty all things.

Popular religion is a coping mechanism for the anxieties of a dysfunctional social and economic environment.

Prayer alone will overcome the gigantic difficulties which confront the workers in every field.

Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way.

Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray.

Preach 90% Law and 10% grace.

Praying is begging for an unseen deity to alter the laws of nature for someone admittedly unworthy.

Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things.

Pray to God, but row towards shore.

Preaching that is boring is preaching that talks first about us and then only tangentially about God. Preaching that is faithful is preaching that talks first about God and then only secondarily and derivatively talks about us. The God of Scripture is so much more interestingly than we are.

Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.

Priests and conjurors are of the same trade.

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

[priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals.

Priests and physicians should never look one another in the face. They have no common ground, nor is there any to mediate betweenthem. When the one comes, the other goes. They could not come together without laughter, or a significant silence, for the one's profession is a satire on the other's, and either's success would be the other's failure.

Properly speaking, all true work is religion.

Prophesying is lying professionally.

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

Put up your guards, keep faith in God, I promise you all the world will be ours.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.

Radical Christianity is not going on a missions trip or a big conference. Radical Christianity is staying steady for decades.

Quantum mechanics is so counter-intuitive, physicists have never been able to come up with a comfortable picture of how it works.

Randomness scares people. Religion is a way to explain randomness.

Put your trust in god are the most dangerous words in the English language.

Radicalization does not happen to young people with a strong grounding in the American Muslim mainstream; increasingly, it happens online, and sometimes abroad, among the isolated and disaffected.

Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.

Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree.

Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South Pacific preaches a truer doctrine.

Reason is not one tool of thought among many, it is the entire toolbox. To advocate that reason be discarded in some circumstances is to advocate that thinking be discarded - which leaves one in the position of attempting to do a job after throwing away the required instrument.

Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying.

Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.

Reason should be destroyed in all Christians.

Redemption is promised at the low price of surrender of your critical faculties.

Reasons for declaring belief is not are not the same as reasons for believing in god.

Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.

Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness.

Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society.

Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.

Religion is insanity by consensus.

Religion is not any particular teaching. Religion is everywhere.

Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty.

Religion isn’t about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.