"God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips."
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"I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution."
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"When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one."
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"Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless."
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"... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the fetters of his selfish desires and is preoccupied with thoughts, feelings, and aspirations to which he clings because of their superpersonal value."
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"He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God."
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"The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him."
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"By giving away food we get more strength. By bestowing clothing on others we gain more beauty. By donating abodes of purity and truth we acquire great treasures."
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"The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality."
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"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."
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"These people [the Christians] watched the Flintstones as if it were a documentary."
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"The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next."
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"There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other."
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"A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process"
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"It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from."
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"When talking about unicorns, minotaurs, or compassionate conservatives, one does not normally have to prove their non-existence; the mere lack of any evidence is sufficient reason not to believe in any of them."
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"Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art"."
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"In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing. But this is mere temporizing. If we wish courageously to pursue the question, we must, of course ask next where God comes from? And if we decide this to be unanswerable, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always existed?"
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"Superstition is the religion of feeble minds."
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"The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity."
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