"If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad."
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"The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."
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"It is difficulties that show what men are. For the future, in case of any difficulty, remember that God, like a gymnastic trainer, has pitted you against a rough antagonist. For what end? That you may be an Olympic conqueror; and this cannot be without toil."
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"As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion."
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"If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments"
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"Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive."
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"Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs."
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"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is."
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"A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion."
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"The unconscious psyche believes in life after death"
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"Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty."
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"Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once; and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy."
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"Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness."
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"When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out."
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"The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose."
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"Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing."
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"I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?"
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"He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less."
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"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. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge."
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"Where knowledge ends, religion begins."
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