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The point of any religion should be this: how to open your heart to love.

[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread... and a thousand other things of the same kind.

The present custom of orthodox Christendom, in packing their sins upon the back of a God, is just the same substantially as that of various heathen nations who were anciently in the habit of packing them upon the backs of various dumb animals.

The primary battle which religion must fight today is the battle to justify its own existence.

The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.

The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.

The real problem is not the religion itself, but its insistence that the interpretation it offers of the world is the only valid interpretation.

There are a score of great religions in the world, each with scores or hundreds of sects, each with its priestly orders, its complicated creed and ritual, its heavens and hells. Each has its thousands or millions or hundreds of millions of true believers each damns all the others with more or less heartiness - and each is a mighty fortress of graft.

There are at bottom but two possible religions--that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and that which grows out of the observation of the material energies which operate in the external universe.

There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty. What is needed is emphasis on morality and manners.

There are grave difficulties on every hand, and more are looming ahead. Therefore, we must go forward.

There are hundreds of millions who believe the Messiah has come. If he did, then it is unfortunately the case that his heroic sacrifice and death have had no effect whatsoever on the very problem his coming might have been expected to address, for history demonstrates, beyond question, that we Christians have been just as dangerous, singly and en masse, as non-Christians.

There are innumerable definitions of God because his manifestations are innumerable.

There are many pitfalls in the marathon of life. But regardless of what you go through, you can count on God's sustaining grace.

There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence.

There are no good reasons to believe in god.

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.

There are no truths outside the Gates of Eden.

There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.

The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.

There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.

The reason to get in touch with the culture is not to adopt it but to engage it for the same reasons a missionary does... to gain a hearing for the gospel.

There cannot possibly be a god in heaven watching all of this calmly.

There can't be a practical reason for believing something that is not true.

... there could be talking bunny rabbits, spiders who write English messages in their webs, and for that matter, melancholy choo-choo trains. There could be, I suppose, but there aren't-so my theory doesn't have to explain them.

There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to the power of some authority.

[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.

The records of every great religion show the presence of such Supermen, so full of the Divine Life that again and again they have been taken as the very representatives of God Himself.

There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.

There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out and since then this lake has always risen higher and higher. Perhaps the very act of renunciation provides us with the strength to bear it ; perhaps man will rise ever higher and higher when he no longer flows out into a God.

There is exactly the same degree of possibility and likelihood of the existence of the Christian God as there is of the existence of the Homeric god. I cannot prove that either the Christian god or the Homeric gods do not exist, but I do not think that their existence is an alternative that is sufficiently probable to be worth serious consideration.

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

There is more in this heaven and earth than what the scientist knows and is revealed in the x-ray.

There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do, that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do, that I have not been able to accomplish.

There is no Apocalypse.

There is no evidence for a god, no coherent definition of a god, no good argument for a god, good positive arguments against a god, no agreement among believers about the nature or moral principles of a god, and no need for a god. We can live happy, moral, productive lives without such belief, and we can do it better.

There is no [...] higher than the truth.

There is no god higher than truth.

There is no language of the holy. The sacred lies in the ordinary.

There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God

There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist, and quite good reasons for believing that they do not exist and never have. It has all been a gigantic waste of time and a waste of life. It would be a joke of cosmic proportions if it weren't so tragic.

There is no possible source of evil except good.

There is no scientific proof that only scientific proofs are good proofs; no way to prove by the scientific method that the scientific method is the only valid method.

There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

There is not a Musselman alive who would not imagine that he was performing an action pleasing to God and his Holy Prophet by exterminating every Christian on earth, while the Christians are scarcely more tolerant on their side.

There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.

There is not a shadow of right in the general government to intermingle with religion. Its least interference with it would be a most flagrant usurpation.