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The deepest level of worship is praising God inspite of pain, trusting Him during a trial, surrendering while suffering, and loving Him when He seems distant.

The deeper question... is not whether ancient religious forms can reform... but whether new forms of nature-related spirituality might emerge.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.

The dimension of depth in the consciousness of religion creates the tension between what is and what ought to be. It bends the bow from which every arrow of moral action flies.

The discovery there is no god is a great relief, because if there were, it would be like living in a celestial North Korea if there was one. You would never be able to escape.

The doctrine of the double motion of the earth about its axis and about the sun is false, and entirely contrary to Holy Scripture.

The distribution of species on islands and continents throughout the world is exactly what you'd expect if evolution was a fact. The distribution of fossils in space and in time are exactly what you would expect if evolution were a fact. There are millions of facts all pointing in the same direction and no facts pointing in the wrong direction.

The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.

The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.

The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is absurd, and both philosophically and theologically false, and at the least an error of faith.

The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth as just a temporary phase that people pass through, indeed, an infinitesimal fraction of their existence…the gradual replacement of lives for souls as the locus of moral value was helped along by the ascendency of skepticism and reason

The downtrodden are more religious than the satisfied.

The driving force behind today's terrorist threat is Islamist fundamentalism. The struggle we are engaged in is, at root, ideological. During the last century a strain of Islamist thinking has developed which, like other totalitarianisms, such as Nazism and Communism, offers its followers a form of redemption through violence.

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it. I am not able to believe one's religion can affect his hereafter one way or the other, no matter what that religion may be. But it may easily be a great comfort to him in this life-hence it is a valuable possession to him.

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

The essence of Christianity, as I see it, is love. The essence of Humanism (and I'm also a Humanist) is love. At that level, we're not far apart.

The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of ... constitutional principles.

The evidence for the resurrection is better than for claimed miracles in any other religion. It's outstandingly different in quality and quantity.

The exterior must be joined to the interior to obtain anything from God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with the lips, and soon, in order that proud man, who would not submit himself to God, may be now subject to the creature.

The external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal.

The facts may tell you one thing. But, God is not limited by the facts. Choose faith in spite of the facts.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

The Fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For when they boast extravagantly of the Spirit, the tendency is always to bury the Word of God so they may make room for their own falsehoods.

The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

The final goal of all religions is to realise the essential oneness.

The first and last lesson of religion is, "The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal." It puts an affront upon nature.

The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the slave of the monsters of his own creation, the ghosts and phantoms of the air.

The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason.

The foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality, and the preeminence of free government be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its citizens, and command the respect of the world.

The fundamental religion of most of mankind is the faith that God has revealed Himself to us and not to the barbarians. Our tribe is the one God chose and so if we vanquish the other tribes and rain fire and destruction on them, we're only carrying out God's Will.

The form of government which you admire, when its principles are pure is admirable indeed. It is productive of every Thing which is great and excellent among men. But its principles are as easily destroyed as human nature is corrupted. Such a government is only to be supported by pure religion or Austere morals.

The free exercise clause of the constitution does not apply to any religion but Christianity. [because none of the other religions are legitimate religions.].

The future of religion is connected with the possibility of developing a faith in the possibilities of human experience and human relationships that will create a vital sense of the solidarity of human interests and inspire action to make that sense a reality.

The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.

The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.

The God of Hell should be held in loathing, contempt and scorn. A God who threatens eternal pain should be hated, not loved - cursed, not worshiped. A heaven presided over by such a God must be below the lowest hell.

The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

The good Lord made this world and everything that's in it. The way I see it, baby, you got to love it to the limit.

The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.

The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate.

The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.

The Gospel must constantly be forwarded to a new address, because the recipient is repeatedly changing his place of residence.

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

The greatest miracle of the Bible is that the prophets of Israel could keep a religion as clean as a hounds tooth amid all the corruption and idolatry of the nations surrounding them.