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I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if a man committed a sin the extermination of the whole surrounding nation-cattle and all-was likely to happen. I knew that Providence was not particular about the rest, so that He got somebody connected with the one He was after.

I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate.

I was taught in my religious upbringing to spell God with a dash, G-d. But now my dash is pink.

I will take no more physick, not even my opiates; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it.

I would fain ask one of these bigotted Infidels, supposing all the great Points of Atheism... were laid together and formed into a kind of Creed, according to the Opinions of the most celebrated Atheists; I say, supposing such a Creed as this were formed, and imposed upon any one People in the World, whether it would not require an infinitely greater Measure of Faith, than any Set of Articles which they so violently oppose.

I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth.

Jesus Christ didnt commit the gospel to an advertising agency; He commissioned disciples. And He didnt command them to put up signs and pass out tracts; He said that they would be His witnesses.

...Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of modern psychiatric treatments.

Jerusalem is old, Jerusalem is new, Jerusalem can hold Moslem, Christian, Jew.

Jesus made it clear that the most important thing in the world is our relationship to God and to others. When we achieve that, everything good will follow.

Jesus was a crackpot.

[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile to human dignity and liberty.

Jesus must have been married to have been called a rabbi.

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

"Jesus said to 5 of 7 churches, "Repent or Else." That should be the focus of every pastor, denomination. We are headed for the OR ELSE.

Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.

Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.

Just as it is the province of science to find out what the facts of life are, to classify them and use them to verify or discredit whatever theory may have been advanced concerning them, so it is the province of a living theology to be constantly seeking from God the wit and wisdom that will interpret anew and more truly the parable of life.

JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.

Just as I am not upset with somebody who has caught a cold, so too I am not upset with somebody who's caught the faith virus.

Just as the chicken pox virus continues to live quietly in the body after the disease is gone, the god virus may live quietly in the host until something evokes it.

Just because quantum mechanics is weird does not mean that everything that is weird is quantum mechanics.

Just for being a religion at all you're as complicit as the rest in the retardation of the human intellectual progress.

Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different... More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history!

Just look at the faces of the great Christians! They are the faces of great haters.

Kill them all, for God knows His own.

Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!

Leftist organizations are aggressively attempting to redefine America in their own Godless image.

Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.

Let's quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?

Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the name of the God Ram-Ram-Ram (etc. with or without charm) on their fingers; or honour Vishnu with his thousand names of invocation, Allah with his ninety-nine; or they may make use of the prayer-wheels and the rosary: the main thing is that they are settled down for a time at this work and are tolerable to look at. This kind of prayer has been invented for the benefit of the pious who have thought and elevations of their own.

Life is not fair, but one day God's going to settle the score. He's going to right the wrongs. So, who can get better justice - you or God?

Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.

Let us use our energy and our initiative to solve our problems without relying on prayers and wishful thinking. When we have faith in ourselves, we will find we do not have to have faith in gods.

Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods.

Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.

Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.

Lucifer comes to give to us the final gift of wholeness. If we accept it then he is free and we are free. This is the Luciferic initiation. It is one that many people now, and in the days ahead, will be facing, for it is an initiation in the New Age.

Luke [the gospel writer] screws up his dating by tactlessly mentioning events that historians are capable of independently checking. There was indeed a census under Governor Quirinius - a local census, not one decreed by Caesar Augustus for the Empire as a whole - but it happened too late in 6 AD, long after Herod's death.

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

Luminous, unfearful; high-priestesses, our fervour shall banish all evil.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.