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"Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories."
"The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics."
"My position concerning God is that of an agnostic."
"Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life."
"There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to the power of some authority."
"We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion."
"Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone."
"I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature."
"The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them."
"Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from."
"Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child."
"As we shall see, the concept of time has no meaning before the beginning of the universe. This was first pointed out by St. Augustine. When asked: What did God do before he created the universe? Augustine didn't reply: He was preparing Hell for people who asked such questions. Instead, he said that time was a property of the universe that God created, and that time did not exist before the beginning of the universe."
"There is no god higher than truth."
"One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's."
"Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion."
"Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all."
"After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some error in them; (3) all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own close relatives."
"My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray."
"Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart."
"I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed."
