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

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

There is no Apocalypse.

There is no god higher than truth.

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

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 language of the holy. The sacred lies in the ordinary.

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 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 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 greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.

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 shadow of right in the general government to intermingle with religion. Its least interference with it would be a most flagrant usurpation.

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

There is not the slightest question but that the God of the Old Testament is a jealous, vengeful God, inflicting not only on the sinful pagans but even on his Chosen People fire, lighting, hideous plagues and diseases, brimstone, and other curses.

There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.

There is no way you can harmonize neo-Darwinism and Christianity.

There is zero evidence for god.

There is obviously a great human need for religion because life seems to be such a mystery.

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

There is too much undissolved wrath and punishment in most religions.

The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.

The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite of threats of personal loss because of its general and enduring value.

The religion of the Bible is the best in the world. I see the infinite value of religion. Let it be always encouraged. A world ofsuperstition and folly have grown up around its forms and ceremonies. But the truth in it is one of the deep sentiments in human nature.

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion, and making way for truth.

The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment!

The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them.

The religions of the world are luminous in their individuality, and they have valuable social and soulmaking functions. Surely someday we will quit killing each other over their different strategies.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism

The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things... after the weather.

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such.

The religions we call false were once true.

There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.

There's a way to preach the Bible unbiblically...You can use the Bible as the springboard for all kinds of ideas, can't you? Look around in here and find something that fits your fancy and then launch a rocket off it. People say, 'That was amazing, wasn't it? Remarkable what he got out of that.' Well of course it is because he put it in before he got it out.

The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person.

There was no known cure for a Catholic education.

There would be no value in worship services and symbols did they not, preserved in their Purity and Beauty, serve as aids to right living.

The search for religion is the starting point of thought.

Thermodynamics, correctly interpreted, does not just allow Darwinian evolution; it favors it.