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Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.

Our culture is superior. Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free.

Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.

Our planet is a tiny atom in god's kingdom.

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none with mine; nor is it given to us in this life to know whether yours or mine, our friend's or our foe's, are exactly the right.

Our religious needs are our deepest needs. There is no peace till they are satisfied and contented. The attempt to stifle them is in vain. If their cry be drowned by the noise of the world, they do not cease to exist. They must be answered.

Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.

Our religion is Christ, our politics Fatherland!

Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuine religious experience is anything but that. True religion is by nature disruptive of what has been, giving birth to the eternally new.

[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God.

Our vow of chastity is nothing but our undivided love for Christ in chastity, then we proceed to the freedom of poverty-poverty is nothing but freedom. And that total surrender is obedience. If I belong to God, if I belong to Christ, then he must be able to use me. That is obedience. Then we give wholehearted service to the poor. That is service. They complete each other. That is our life.

Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion.

Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false.

Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.

Partisanship should be kept out of the pulpit... The blindest of partisans are preachers. All politicians expect and find more candor, fairness, and truth in politicians than in partisan preachers. They are not replied to - no chance to reply to them.... The balance wheel of free institutions is free discussion. The pulpit allows no free discussion.

Patriotism is the religion of hell.

Peace is the gift of God. Do you want peace? Go to God. Do you want peace in four families? Go to God. Do you want peace to brood over your families? If you do, live your religion, and the very peace of God will dwell and abide with you, for that is where peace comes from, and it doesn't dwell anywhere else.

People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.

People consider the harms they inflict to be justified and forgettable, and the harms they suffer to be unprovoked and grievous.

People crave a conspiracy for the same reason they crave a god.

People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation - much like building a mosque at Ground Zero.

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.

Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God himself is mad.

Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.

Perhaps not one religion contains all of the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth, and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together.

Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.

Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world.

Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.

'Physician, heal thyself' is more true in matters religious than mundane.

Pity! Religion has so seldom found A skilful guide into poetic ground! The flowers would spring where'er she deign'd to stray And every muse attend her in her way.

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

Perhaps the saddest thing to admit is that those who rejected the Cross have to carry it, while those who welcomed it are so often engaged in crucifying others.

Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]

Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.

Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Preach 90% Law and 10% grace.

Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray.

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.