Martin Luther
Theologian
"A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing."
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Omar Khayyam
Poet, Mathematician, Astronomer
"Men talk of heaven, - there is no heaven but here; Men talk of hell, - there is no hell but here; Men of hereafters talk and future lives, - O love, there is no other life - but here."
Aldous Huxley
Novelist, Essayist
"The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion."
Ramakrishna
Spiritual Leader
"One should not think, 'My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.' God can be realized by means of all paths. It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite are the opinions."
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"Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition."
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"Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way."
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"Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all."
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"In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall come nearer to success and that success in our aims (the improvement of the lot of mankind, present and future) is worth attaining...I maintain that faith in this world is perfectly possible without faith in another world."
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"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."
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"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
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"Prison is a severe and terrible punishment; but for me, thanks to Arthur Balfour, this was not so. I was much cheered on my arrival by the warder at the gate, who had to take particulars about me. He asked my religion, and I replied 'agnostic.' He asked how to spell it, and remarked with a sigh: 'Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God.' This remark kept me cheerful for about a week."
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"Most people do not pray; they only beg."
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"God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way."
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"If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world."
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
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"Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces."
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"I would have met Jesus sooner if not for Christians who led double lives."
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"Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case."
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"I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity."
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"If God is omnipotent, omniscient and wholly good, whence evil? If God wills to prevent evil but cannot, then He is not omnipotent. If He can prevent evil but does not, then he is not good. In either case he is not God."
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"I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit."
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"My God! This is a revolution! We have to offend someone!"
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"Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith."
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"You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion."
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