"A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission."
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"My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion."
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"Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ?"
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"When science advances religion goes along with it; science builds the altar at which religion prays."
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"No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'."
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"To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God."
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"I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did not exist. I was also very angry with God for not existing. I was equally angry with Him for creating a world."
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"God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker."
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"Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed."
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"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?” Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.” A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths."
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"Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it."
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"The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for the existence of God."
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"Redemption is promised at the low price of surrender of your critical faculties."
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"Religion fosters servility and solipsism."
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"There is no God and we are his prophets."
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"The world in which we live can be understood as a result of muddle and accident; but if it is the outcome of deliberate purpose, the purpose must have been that of a fiend. For my part, I find accident a less painful and more plausible hypothesis."
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"The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell."
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"In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand."
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"Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions."
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"I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service."
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