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...for limited purposes only, let me define religion as a set of symbolic forms and acts which relate man to the ultimate conditions of his existence.

For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.

For many people - from secular feminists to observant Jews - the notion of a feminist Judaism is an oxymoron.

For man may pious texts repeat, And yet religion have no inward seat

For me, the best time to pray is the very moment a tense situation or an unspiritual attitude overtakes me. God the Holy Spirit is always there, ready to help me gain victory in the spiritual battles I face-big or small.

For my money, I'll bet on reason and humanistic kindness. Even if I am wrong I will have enjoyed my life, the existence of which is under little dispute.

For most cosmologists, a supernatural God is an unnecessary hypothesis. For most Americans, He is an unassailable fact. The American belief machine apparently has a fail-safe component. Nothing shuts it down.

For my generation I must have the oracles of God in fresh terms.

For one man who thanks God that he is not as other men there are a thousand to offer thanks that they are as other men, sufficiently as others are to escape attention.

For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil in men; their repugnance to wrong disinclines them to commit wrongful acts; they shun the unrighteous and are drawn to the upright.

Found a shaman in a diaper with a poppy pot. When I asked if he was cold, he said just think hot.

...Freedom arises from the multiplicity of sects, which prevades America and which is the best and only security for religious liberty in any society. For where there is such a variety of sects, there cannot be a majority of any one sect to oppress and persecute the rest.

Freedom is a new religion, the religion of our time.

Freethought is respectable. Freethought is crucial. Freethought needs to be publicized.

From a biological viewpoint, patriarchal religion denied women the natural rights of every other mammalian female: the right to choose her stud, to control the circumstances of her mating, to occupy and govern her own nest, or to refuse all males when preoccupied with the important business of raising her young.

From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

Fundamentalism in most of its forms is the active creation of antibodies to some threatening [god] virus. As long as threatening religions or mutations [heresies] are present, fundamentalism will churn out antibodies to keep the population under control and prevent mutations from getting out of hand.

Fundamentalists of different religions have more in common with each other than they do with the moderates of their own religions.

From whence, then, could arise the solitary and strange conceit that the Almighty, who had millions of worlds equally dependant on His protection, should quit the care of all the rest, and come to die in our world, because, they say, one man and one woman had eaten an apple?

Gardening is an active participation in The deepest mysteries of the universe.

Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

Give your life to God; he can do more with it than you can!

God: a gaseous vertebrate.

God always answers prayers. Sometimes it's 'yes.' Sometimes the answer is 'no.' Sometimes it's 'you gotta be kidding.

God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor.

God can, has and will use anybody who is open to serving Him to convey the gospel. He will bless the efforts of His servants whether they are gifted as evangelizers or not.

God comes to each of us in the form we can best perceive Him. To you, just now, He was a heron. To someone else, He might come as a flower or even a breeze.

God got the power, man has got his vanity. Man gotta choose before God can set him free.

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

God does not care what good you did, but why you did it. He does not grade the fruit but probes the core and tests the root.

God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of.

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

God in His law requires the death penalty for homosexuals.

God is all that is. Since everything that exists is God, in one form or another, the only way that God can make a tree is by becoming the tree. Likewise, the way God made you was by becoming you.

God is by definition the holder of all possible knowledge, it would be impossible for him to have faith in anything. Faith, then, is built upon ignorance and hope.

God is love and if you are ready, he always is.

God is not dumb, that he should speak no more; If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor.

God is honored by large, difficult, and impossible requests when we ask, seek, knock, and trust our loving Father always to answer for our good.

God is that inner presence which makes us admire the beautiful and consoles us for not sharing the happiness of the wicked.

God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.

God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.

God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.

God is in heaven, and we all want what's his. But power and greed and corruptible seed seem to be all that there is.

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

God must hate common people, because he made them so common.

God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.