"I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here."
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"If churches want to play the game of politics, let them pay admission like everyone else."
"Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies."
"The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life."
"Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world."
"The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion."
"The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee."
"Men create the gods after their own images."
"There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest."
"The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different."
"I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them."
"God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor."
"I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people."
"Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years."
"Here on earth, God's work must surely be our own."
"It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to."
"A man is only as faithful as his options."
"Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry."
"Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God."
"For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything."