"There are innumerable definitions of God because his manifestations are innumerable."
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"A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance."
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"God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he prescribes for them."
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"The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all."
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"Nothing is perfect in God's perfect plan."
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"Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown."
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"Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful."
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"The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last."
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"I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes."
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"Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours."
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"All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them."
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"Praying is begging for an unseen deity to alter the laws of nature for someone admittedly unworthy."
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"Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future."
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"Religious people are guided in their activities not by the consequences of their actions, but by the consciousness of the destination of their lives."
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"In vain do science and philosophy pose as the arbiters of the human mind, of which they are in fact only the servants. Religion has provided a conception of life, and science travels in the beaten path. Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances."
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"The foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality, and the preeminence of free government be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its citizens, and command the respect of the world."
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"In the First Amendment to the Constitution, the Founders made it clear that this was not to be a sky-god nation with a national religion like that of England, from whom we had just separated. It is curious how little understood this amendment is-yes, everyone has a right to worship any god he chooses but he does not have the right to impose his beliefs on others who do not happen to share in his superstitions and taboos."
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"E.P. Whipple calls fanaticism "religion caricatured," which is a full definition in a word."
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"We have fossils... We win!"
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"God is not dumb, that he should speak no more; If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor."
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