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No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.

No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.

No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong.

None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.

No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.

No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started... It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind.

No problem is more crucial for a naturalistic view of the world than the mind-body problem.

No opinion has ever been too errant to become a creed.

No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history.

No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion.

No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will have changed and character, not possession of wealth, title or birth, will be the test of merit.

Not everybody feels religion the same way. Some it's in their mouth, but some it's like a hope in their blood, their bones.

Not every day can be an easy one, nor every day fully happy; but even a day of tough going and difficulty can be a good day.

Not everybody has to sing the melody.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion.

Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition of his name upon every trifling occasion . . . . To prevent this profanation, such passages are selected from scripture, as contain some important precepts of morality and religion, in which that sacred name is seldom mentioned. Let sacred things be appropriated to sacred purposes.

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.

Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.

Nothing is perfect in God's perfect plan.

Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

Not only is science corrosive to religion, but religion is corrosive to science. It teaches people to be satisfied with trivial non-explanations and blinds them to the wonderful real explanations that we have within our grasp.

Not one of the first six [U.S.] presidents was an orthodox Christian. Most of the founders were Deists, who "doubted that Christ was a god" and equated God with "the power behind nature, as discerned by science.

Now if I don't meet you no more in this world, then I'll, I'll meet you in the next one, and don't be late, don't be late, cause I'm a voodoo chile.

No vision of God and heaven ever experienced by the most exalted prophet can, in my opinion, match the vision of the universe as seen by Newton or Einstein

Now it seems that everything in the world stems from sources other than God, since the products of nature have their source in nature; deliberate effects can be traced back to human reason or will as their source. There is no need then to assume that God exists.

Now they always accuse me of carrying around a sledge hammer with which to pound the church members. Yes sir, I do pound them, every time I come down, I knock one of the halfway fellows out of the doorway, and every time I knock one out I get a sinner in.

Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained by history, follows perforce.

Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously, it was these flowers, it was anything that I - or rather the blessed Not-I - cared to look at.

Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity.

Oh my friends, we are loaded with countless church activities, while the real work of the church, that of evangelizing and winning the lost is almost entirely neglected.

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!

Oh, my brothers and sisters in Christ, if sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies; and if they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay, and not madly to destroy themselves. If hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for.

Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.

O God! if I worship Thee in fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; and if I worship Thee in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise; but if I worship Thee for Thine own sake, withhold not thine everlasting beauty.

Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics/ And the Catholics hate the Protestants/ And the Hindus hate the Muslims/ And everybody hates the Jews.

Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.

On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.