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"Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker, in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle."
"Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the President of the United States, and no authority to direct the religious exercises of his constituents."
"Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true, just, firm, orderly, courageous, etc. Consider every act of this kind as an exercise which will strengthen your moral faculties and increase your worth."
"The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing."
"Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one."
"Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts... It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them."
"Who knows most, doubts most."
"Though we feel we can choose what we do, our understanding of the molecular basis of biology shows that biological processes are governed by the laws of physics and chemistry and therefore are as determined as the orbits of the planets."
"But we all recognise the primary foible of frail humanity - our propensity for embracing hope and shunning logic, our tendency to believe what we desire rather than what we observe."
"Religion implies revelation."
"Religion is not a dogma, nor an emotion, but a service."
"...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so."
"All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings."
"What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!"
"Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one."
"We are merely instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment. We must thus rest satisfied with the knowledge only of the means and if these are pure, we can fearlessly leave the end to take care of itself."
"There's no God higher than truth."
"Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison."
"Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith."
"Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared."
