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In her present ignorance, woman's religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.

In its permission to man to render subject to him all other living creatures of the earth, it continued the cruelty of the barbarian and the pagan, and endowed these with what appeared a divine authority.

In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity, but a frequent cause of it.

In many parts of the Bible Belt, the divorce rate was discovered to be roughly 50 percent above the national average.

In medieval times, the Church used to sell 'indulgences' for money. This amounted to paying for some number of days' remission from purgatory, and the Church literally (and with breathtaking presumption) issued signed certificates specifying the number of days off that had been purchased. . . . And of all its money-making rip-offs, the selling of indulgences must surely rank among the greatest con tricks in history. . . .

In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience.

In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so as to accelerate the process of realisation of fundamental unity.

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.

In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is a being who is personal, supreme and good, and whose existence is as certain as that two and two make four.

in religion even when the reward is far the hope is so immediate.

In revival, God is not concerned about filling empty churches, He is concerned about filling empty hearts.

In religion is much tiredness of people, a giving over of their doing to Someone Else.

In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.

In short, evolution is as close to being a scientific fact as is possible for any theory, given that science is open - ended and no one can predict with certainty what may change in the future. The prospect that evolution by natural selection, at least as a broad mechanism, will be overthrown in the future is about as likely as the prospect of finding out some day that the Earth is really flat. Unfortunately, those who regard these scientific facts as a threat to faith have chosen to distort and misrepresent them to the public.

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.

Instant Karma is going to get you.

In such a performance you may lay the foundation of national happiness only in religion, not by leaving it doubtful "whether morals can exist without it," but by asserting that without religion morals are the effects of causes as purely physical as pleasant breezes and fruitful seasons.

Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue.

In the absence of evidence, the scientist says, 'I don't know,' but the religionist says, 'I believe.'

In the absence of fear there is little faith.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

In the beginning, there were no reasons; there were only causes. Nothing had a purpose, nothing has so much as a function; there was no teleology in the world at all.

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

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

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

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 theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I regard belief as a form of brain damage.

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

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.

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

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.

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