"The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind."
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"The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God."
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"The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections."
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"Religion is civilization, the highest."
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"I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did."
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"To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly."
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"I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it."
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"Revealed religion has no weight with me."
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"The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in religion."
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"Indeed, when religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people quarrel about victuals, it looks as if they had not much of either among them."
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"There is not a Musselman alive who would not imagine that he was performing an action pleasing to God and his Holy Prophet by exterminating every Christian on earth, while the Christians are scarcely more tolerant on their side."
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"The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid."
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"No opinion has ever been too errant to become a creed."
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"I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue."
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"The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others."
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"The more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs."
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"If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that there cannot be any validity in that argument... The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination."
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"It could be that one of the greatest hindrances to evangelism is the poverty of our own experience."
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"Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it."
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"It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science."
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