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Has there ever been anything filthier on earth than the saints in the wilderness? Around them was not only the devil loose around them- but also the swine.

Have you ever wondered... how religious movements get started? Usually, we think of them as a product of highly charismatic evangelists... but the spread of any new and contagious ideology also has a lot to do with the skillful use of group power.

Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on of late - and how little revival has resulted? I believe the problem is that we have been trying to substitute praying for obeying, and it simply will not work.

Have you ever stopped to think how much unhappiness and downright cruelty are laid to the loving kindness of the Lord? And always by His most ardent followers, it seems.

Having a debate with a modern Christian is like punching a sponge.

Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter.

Heal yourselves, doctors; by God I live.

Heaven is the very last place to come to rest and don't you be afraid to bet on that!

Heaven plants a special seed, and we must have faith.

He created the church to meet your five deepest needs: a purpose to live for, people to live with, principles to live by, a profession to live out, and power to live on. There is no other place on earth where you can find all five of these benefits in one place.

He [God] is using me, all the time, everywhere, to stand up for a biblical worldview in everything that I do and everywhere I am. He is training me.

He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.

He lives century after century, and the test I set for him he has passed.

Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.

HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English.

Hell is having to execute a pointless act from which nothing ever comes except the need to do it again.

Hell is paved with priests' skulls.

Hell is paved with good samaritans.

Help cure the world of the faith virus.

Hello God, if we are still on speaking terms, can you help me?

Hence our verdict on these reformulated versions of St. Anselm's argument must be as follows. They cannot, perhaps, be said to prove or establish their conclusion.

Here on earth, God's work must surely be our own.

Here's the thing about people who believe in god... They're idiots.

He that can toy with his ministry and count it to be like a trade, or like any other profession, was never called of God. But he that has a charge pressing on his heart, and a woe ringing in his ear, and preaches as though he heard the cried of hell behind him, and saw his God looking down on him-oh, how that man entreats the Lord that his hearers may not hear in vain!

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.

He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.

He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God.

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

He who nurtures benevolence for all creatures within his heart overcomes all difficulties and will be the recipient of all types of riches at every step.

He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.

Hey, let's get serious... God knows what he's doin' He wrote this book here And the book says: 'He made us all to be just like Him', So... If we're dumb... Then God is dumb... (And maybe even a little ugly on the side)

His [Jesus'] historians, having brought him into the world in a supernatural manner, were obliged to take him out again in the same manner, or the first part of the story must have fallen to the ground.

Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him.

He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler, if he had made the rules of our moral conduct a matter of science. For one man of science, there are thousands who are not. What would have become of them? Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong, merely relative to this.

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost ?

Horace Dinsmore was, like his father, an upright, moral man, who paid an outward respect to the forms of religion, but cared nothing for the vital power of godliness.

However noble their purpose, we must beware of institutionalized methods that indoctrinate and regiment and fashion every Christian into a common evangelistic mold.

How many evangelism programs have you encountered in which sharing the gospel assumes no relationship with the customer and Jesus is sold like soap?

How wise are Thy commandments O Lord. Each one of them applies to somebody or other I know.

Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident.

Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.

Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.

Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality.

Hurting people is my business.

I advocate the abolition of all religions, without setting up anything new of the kind.

I acknowledge myself a unitarian

I am arguing that faith as such, faith as an alleged method of acquiring knowledge, is totally invalid and as a consequence, all propositions of faith, because they lack rational demonstration, must conflict with reason.