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In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand.

In the God of all creation, we put our faith and trust. And give our lives to you, cause you gave your life for us.

In the gentle evening freeze, by the whispering shady trees I will find sanctuary in the Lord.

In the name of religion, we force widowhood upon our three lakh girl-widows who could not understand the import of the marriage ceremony.

In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.

In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you’ll need religion.

In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take me in.

In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.

In the popular imagination, the Big Bang is a great explosion; at one time there was nothing, then matter erupted into previously empty space. However, the Big Bang is the beginning of spacetime itself, not an event in time.

In the spirit of tolerance, you should allow us to execute homosexuals.

In thirty years I have treated many patients. Among all my patients in the second half of life, every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age had given their followers, and none of them was really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.

In this light, my spirit saw through all things and into all creatures and I recognized God in grass and plants.

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars.

In your eyes I see the doorway to a thousand churches.

I ran into the preacher, said God was on my side, then I ran into the hangman.

I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.

I realized that I needed to be more like the shepherd than the hired hand in protecting my team.

I regard belief as a form of brain damage.

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

I regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion

Is god omnipotent ? If he is, can he create a rock so heavy he can't lift it ?

I see the necessity of preaching a full and present salvation from all sin.

Islam will win with or without you, but without Islam you will get lost and lose.

Islam doesn't promote violence or peace. Islam is just a religion, and like every religion in the world, it depends on what you bring to it. If you're a violent person, your Islam, your Judaism, your Christianity, your Hinduism, is going to be violent.

Islam has some of the best defenses against other god viruses and has the potential to be more parasitically aggressive when consolidating political power with a society.

Islam is not about “we’re better than you”. Rather it is about “let me show you something that is better for you

Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.

Is the God of the Mahometan different from the God of the Hindu? Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? Wherein is the cause for quarreling?

Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity?

It cannot be emphasized too strongly that Christianity has a vested interest in human misery. Christianity, perhaps more than any religion before or since, capitalized on human suffering; and it was enormously successful in insuring its own existence through the perpetuation of human suffering.

It could be that one of the greatest hindrances to evangelism is the poverty of our own experience.

It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual religiosity; to define religion as a universal obsessive compulsive neurosis.

It degrades from the equal rank of Citizens all those whose opinions in Religion do not bend to those of the Legislative authority. Distant as it may be in its present form from the Inquisition, it differs from it only in degree.

It has been said that men carry on a kind of coasting trade with religion. In the voyage of life, they profess to be in search of heaven, but take care not to venture so far in their approximations to it, as entirely to lose sight of the earth; and should their frail vessel be in danger of shipwreck, they will gladly throw their darling vices overboard, as other mariners their treasures, only to fish them up again when the storm is over.

I thank the Lord for the night time.

It has always seemed to me that a being coming from another world, with a message of infinite importance to mankind, should at least have verified that message by his own signature. Is it not wonderful that not one word was written by Christ?

It has always seemed unfair to me that many churches (and some individual Christians) keep careful records on how many converts they make to Christianity, but never keep any record of how many they drive away from Christ!

I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.

I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.

It has not been the fashion to be scientific about religion, but it is necessary that we should be scientific; it is time that we examined ourselves as to our faith and tried to know what we believe and why, and on what we base our belief.

I think that gardening is nearer to godliness than theology.

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They have also fabricated pious fraud. Most believers in a religion understand this when examining the claims of other religions.

It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no God... Were a man impressed as fully and strongly as he ought to be with the belief of a God, his moral life would be regulated by the force of belief; he would stand in awe of God and of himself, and would not do the thing that could not be concealed from either.

It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man. It is assuredly no part of religion to compel religion, to which free will and not force should lead us.

It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're the right religion.

It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found.