"Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement."
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"Religion is fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated."
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"It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving."
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"His religion at best is an anxious wish,-like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps."
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"We shall find God in everything alike, and find God always alike in everything."
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"What I've found is that the religion that matters, the real religion is love."
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"It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing."
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"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers."
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"The strength of a country is the strength of its religious convictions."
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"I want to have a lasting experience with God. Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world, but then I loose it because I get distracted by my petty desires and fears. I want to be with God all the time. But I don't want to be a monk, or totally give up worldly pleasures. I guess what I want to learn is how to leave in this world and enjoy its delights, but also elevate myself to God."
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"In thirty years I have treated many patients. Among all my patients in the second half of life, every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age had given their followers, and none of them was really healed who did not regain his religious outlook."
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"The whole [of religion] is a riddle, an ænigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the onlyresult of our most accurate scrutiny, concerning this subject."
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"There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin."
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"If I could do just one thing, it would be to dissociate faith from virtue, now and for good, and to expose it for what it is, a servile weakness, a refuge in cowardice, and a willingness to follow, with credulity, people who are in the highest degree unscrupulous."
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"Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be well."
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"it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists"
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"Even if we could be certain that one of the world's religions were perfectly true, given the sheer number of conflicting faiths on offer, every believer should expect damnation purely as a matter of probability."
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"Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods."
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"Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?"
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"Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration."
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