"Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood."
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"In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars."
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"The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death."
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"Christianity is such a silly religion."
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"We were created in order to live in Paradise, and Paradise was ordained to serve us. What was ordained for us has been changed; it is not said that this has also happened with what was ordained for Paradise."
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"There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion."
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"Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green."
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"Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their transmortal El Dorado. Sancho Panza will not quit his chimney-corner, but under promise of imaginary islands to govern."
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"People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous."
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"God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown."
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"We all behave as though what we think is true, is true."
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"Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly."
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"We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold."
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"In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in them. . . . There were the texts; there was no mistaking their meaning; . . . she was doing in all this thing what the Bible had mapped out for her to do. So unassailable was her position that in all the centuries she had no word to say against human slavery."
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"It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action."
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"I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate."
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"Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty."
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"True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine."
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"He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion."
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"The form of government which you admire, when its principles are pure is admirable indeed. It is productive of every Thing which is great and excellent among men. But its principles are as easily destroyed as human nature is corrupted. Such a government is only to be supported by pure religion or Austere morals."
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