"This god, this one word: I."
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"It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are."
"First inclination is to become a monk and leave the situation."
"The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them."
"I will take no more physick, not even my opiates; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded."
"Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?"
"Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity."
"Beware of those who try to sell you simple answers to complex questions."
"[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God."
"Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason."
"At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father."
"Is god omnipotent ? If he is, can he create a rock so heavy he can't lift it ?"
"I want everyone out there in TV land to touch the TV. Touch the back of the TV and get a shock for Jesus."
"An America that is militarily and economically strong is not enough. The world must see an America that is morally strong with a creed and a vision. This is what has led us to dare and achieve. For us, values count."
"My religion is, to live through Love."
"To those who wish to punish others -- or at least to see them punished, if the avengers are too cowardly to take matters in to their own hands -- the belief in a fiery, hideous hell appears to be a great source of comfort."
"Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them."
"But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac."
"I claim to represent all the cultures, for my religion, whatever it may be called, demands the fulfillment of all the cultures."
"The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of a cause. No so God - He is all seeing. He insists on the purity of the cause and on adequate sacrifice thereof."