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There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.

The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person.

There was no known cure for a Catholic education.

There would be no value in worship services and symbols did they not, preserved in their Purity and Beauty, serve as aids to right living.

The Right of all members of society to form their own beliefs and communicate them freely to others must be regarded as an essential principle of a democratically organized society.

Thermodynamics, correctly interpreted, does not just allow Darwinian evolution; it favors it.

The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian.

The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.

The sacred is found boring by many who find the uncanny fascinating.

The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.

The search for religion is the starting point of thought.

The second commandment is "Thou shall not construct any graven images." Is this really the pinnacle of what we can achieve morally? The second most important moral principle for all the generations of humanity?

The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

These dilemmas present perhaps the most enduring conundrum of human history: can people derive their identity primarily by positive association or does life's meaning also require negative comparison to others?

These people [the Christians] watched the Flintstones as if it were a documentary.

The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack what he thought of the sermon afterwards, and he said, "There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.

The settled opinion here is that religion is essentially distinct from Civil Govt. and exempt from its cognizance; that a connection between them is injurious to both.

The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell. And therefore if you want to discover nature's nakedness you must destroy its symbols, and the farther you get in the nearer you come to its essence. When you come to the One that gathers all things up into itself, there you must stay.

The shop, the barn, the scullery, and the smithy become temples when men and women do all to the glory of God! The "divine service" is not a thing of a few hours and a few places, but all life becomes holiness unto the Lord, and every place and thing, as consecrated as the tabernacle and it's golden candlestick.

The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot of Mount Everest and insisting that you cannot see the mountain.

The simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains.

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)

The source of nature is spirit.

The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone.

The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government.

The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.

The strength of a country is the strength of its religious convictions.

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.

The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on the marvelous; but it would have approached nearer to the idea of a miracle if Jonah had swallowed the whale.

...the synagogin', the tabernaclin', the psalmin', that goes on in this hoose, that's enough to break the spirits o' ony young creature.

The thesis that the universe has an originating divine cause is logically inconsistent with all extant definitions of causality and with a logical requirement upon these and all possible valid definitions or theories of causality.

The tavern will compare favorably with the church. The church is the place where prayers and sermons are delivered, but the tavernis where they are to take effect, and if the former are good, the latter cannot be bad.

The theist must present an intelligible description of god. Until he does so, god makes no more sense than unie; both are cognitively empty, and any attempt at proof is logically absurd.

The test of a man's conversion is whether he has enough Christianity to get it to other people. If he hasn't, there is something wrong.

The teachings of Christianity - from vicarious redemption to the love of enemies, no thought for the morrow need be taken, that no thrift or care or family or society or solidarity is necessary - these are immoral teachings that have done and continue to inflict untold moral and physical harm on our species. And until we outgrow this nonsense, we have no chance of emancipating ourselves.

The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.

The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seems rather incorrect. This is what should be. Now, if you're taught to live up to a what should be that never existed - only an occult superstition, no proof of this should be - then you can sit on a jury and indict easily, you can cast the first stone, you can burn Adolf Eichmann, like that!

The true contrast between science and religion is that science unites the world and makes it possible for people of widely differing backgrounds to work together and to cooperate. Religion, on the other hand, by its very claim to know “The Truth” through “revelation,” is inherently divisive and a creator of separatism and hostility.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

The three kinds of services you generally find in the Episcopal churches. I call them either low-and-lazy, broad-and-hazy, or high-and-crazy.

The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.

The trilogy composed of politics, religion and sex is the most sensitive of all issues in any society.

The trouble with God isn't that He so seldom makes Himself known to us... He's holding you and me and everybody else by the scruff of the neck practically _constantly... Contentedly adrift in the cosmos, were you?... That is a perfect description of a non-epiphany, that rarest of moments, when God Almighty lets go of the scruff of your neck and lets you be human for a little while.

The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.

The true man of God is heartsick, grieved at the worldliness of the Church, grieved at the toleration of sin in the Church, grieved at the prayerlessness in the Church. He is disturbed that the corporate prayer of the Church no longer pulls down the strongholds of the devil.

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

The truth taught by Jesus Christ is the right way to live.