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Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly.

Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.

Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.

Music is my religion.

My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence is provided by such a God. We would be unappreciative of that gift if we suppressed our passion to explore the universe and ourselves.

My fear is not that our great movement, known as the Methodists, will eventually cease to exist or one day die from the earth. My fear is that our people will become content to live without the fire, the power, the excitement, the supernatural element that makes us great.

My fear is greater than my faith, but I walk the missionary way.

My friends are so cynical, they refuse to keep the faith.

My God! This is a revolution! We have to offend someone!

My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.

My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.

My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and, I might add, infinitely absurd.

My misfortune is my ability to see both sides even of the fundamental religious question.

My position concerning God is that of an agnostic.

My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.

My point is not that religion itself is the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist attacks, but that religion is the principal label, and the most dangerous one, by which a "they" as opposed to a "we" can be identified at all.

My religion is a matter solely between my Maker and myself.

My religion lies in my composition.

My religion teaches me that I should, by my personal conduct, instill into the minds of those who might hold different views the conviction that cow killing is a sin.

My religion is kindness.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.

My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own.

My religion has no geographical limits.

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

Myth is a tale once believed as truth; believed, it is not myth, but religion. A tale once religiously believed that has come to be called a myth is something of religion corrupted with disbelief. What are beliefs for some societies but myths for others cannot fill spiritual vacancies in the life of those others.

My trust is solely in God. And I trust men only because I trust God. If I had no God to rely upon, I should be like Timon, a hater of my species.

Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token

News for the godless: religion is inescapable. there has never been a human society without some form of worship. And don't point to communist societies like the Soviet Union - they worshipped blue jeans.

Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so that a concept of Him was made possible to human thought.

New knowledge has led to the recognition in the theory of evolution of more than a hypothesis. It is indeed remarkable that this theory has been progressively accepted by researchers, following a series of discoveries in various fields of knowledge. The convergence, neither sought nor fabricated, of the results of work that was conducted independently is in itself a significant argument in favor of this theory.

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

New Testament Christians witnessed — not because they had to — but because they could not help it.

Noah took much ridicule building his great arc, but after 40 days and 40 nights he was looking pretty smart.

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle.

No child's behind left.

Nobody is so poor he has nothing to give, and nobody is so rich he has nothing to receive.

No distinction seems to be more obvious than that between spiritual and temporal matters. Yet whenever they have been made objects of Legislation, they have clashed and contended with each other, till one or the other has gained the supremacy.

No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth.

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

No falsehood is so fatal as that which is made an article of faith.

No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.

No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.

No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God.

None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.