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We look after religion as the butcher did after his knife, when he had it in his mouth.

We may as well tolerate all religions, since God Himself tolerates all.

... we must drive them [Jews] out like mad dogs, so that we do not become partakers of their abominable blasphemy and all the their other vices and thus merit God's wrath and be damned with them.

We must never forget that both good and evil flow from the Bible. It is therefore not above criticism.

We need never refrain from asking anything of God simply on the ground that we think it impossible. God specializes in "impossible" things that are too good to be true.

We need to look resolutely away from the impossibilities and to the Lord. His help will come.

We often can't see what God is doing in our lives, but God sees the whole picture and His plan for us clearly.

We're all God's children. We are all special people, and the Pope is no different.

We receive God's grace by humbly admitting that we need it.

We're going to bring back God and the Bible and drive the gods of secular humanism right out of the public schools of America.

We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others.

We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting.

We repeat and again reaffirm that neither a State nor the Federal Government can constitutionally force a person "to profess a belief or disbelief in any religion." Neither can constitutionally pass laws or impose requirements which aid all religions as against nonbelievers, and neither can aid those religions based on a belief in the existence of God as against those religions founded on different beliefs.

We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of government and religion we should have an equal place on this planet.

We should always speak what would please the man of whom we expect a favour,like the hunter who sings sweetly when he desires to shoot a deer.

We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

We shouldn't even need the word 'atheism'. If people didn't invent ridiculous imaginary gods, rational people wouldn't have to deny them.

We should not ask, ‘What is wrong with the world?’ for that diagnosis has already been given. Rather we should ask, “What has happened to salt and light?

We were created in order to live in Paradise, and Paradise was ordained to serve us. What was ordained for us has been changed; it is not said that this has also happened with what was ordained for Paradise.

We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than righteousness, that confesses but does not repent.

We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.

We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.

What could be more foolish than to base one's entire view of life on ideas that, however plausible at the time, now appear to be quite erroneous? And what would be more important than to find our true place in the universe by removing one by one these unfortunate vestiges of earlier beliefs?

What church I go to on Sunday, what dogma of the Catholic Church I believe in, is my business; and whatever faith any other American has is his business.

What do the few existing mystics still do? -- They more or less mold the raw chaos of already existing religion. But only in an isolated, insignificant manner, through feeble attempts. Do it in a grand manner from all aspects with unified efforts, and let us awaken all religions from their graves, newly revivify and form the immortal ones through the omnipotence of art and science.

What a man wants with religion in these breadless times, surpasses my comprehension.

whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.

What happened to California will release a spirit that is more demonic than Islam, a spirit of lawlessness and anarchy. And a sexual insanity will be unleashed into the Earth.

What excellent fools religion makes of men.

What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?

What has religion to do with facts? Nothing.

What if God was one of us, just a slob like one of us?

What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.

What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion.

What is dangerous is not minarets, but basements and garages that hide clandestine places of worship. Thus we must choose between mosques, where we know that the rules of the republic are respected, and secret places where extremism has been developing for too long,.

What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present.

What is paradise, but, a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs, full of pleasure and nothing there but delights.

What is said in James 2:14 ff. is like a two-coupon train or bus ticket. One coupon says, "Not good if detached" and the other says, "Not good for passage". Works are not good for passage; but faith detached from works is not saving faith.

What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.

What suggests to non-Evangelical scholars that the resurrection narratives contain legendary accounts? First there is a variety of apparent contradictions in the stories which in any ancient narrative would have to arouse the historian's suspicion.

Whatsoever is good for God's children they shall have it, for all is theirs to further them to heaven; therefore, if poverty be good, they shall have it; if disgrace be good, they shall have it; if crosses be good, they shall have them; if misery be good, they shall have it; for all is ours, to serve for our greatest good.

What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore.

What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.

What was once easy became confused and hard, which brings us back to the mystic question, who is God?

When an objection cannot be made formidable, there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the yell and the war-whoop, in the place of reason, argument and good order.

When a man has a problem very thoroughly and can't solve it, he really has too few problems. He needs more.

When a garden is used as a place to pause for thought, that is when a Zen garden comes to life. When you contemplate a garden like this it will form as lasting impression on your heart.

When all else fails, and to stand firm seems impossible, stand on the wood of the Cross; it will float with you.