"Religion is about increasing peace and harmony in the world. ... People of all different religions should be given the opportunity to pursue good in their own way."
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"For centuries, the mystics of spirit had existed by running a protection racket - by making life on earth unbearable, then charging you for consolation and relief, by forbidding all the virtues that make existence possible, then riding on the shoulders of your guilt, by declaring production and joy to be sins, then collecting blackmail from the sinners."
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"Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood."
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"The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own."
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"In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is a being who is personal, supreme and good, and whose existence is as certain as that two and two make four."
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"Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves."
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"An old argument with me is that the true religious force in the world is not the church, but the world itself: the mysterious callings of Nature and our responses."
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"All religions begin with the cry Help."
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"Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life."
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"Religions have approved themselves; they have ministered to sundry vital needs which they found reigning. When they violated other needs too strongly, or when other faiths came which served the same needs better, the first religions were supplanted."
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"If any one phrase could gather its (religion's) universal message, that phrase would be, - All is not vanity in this Universe, whatever the appearances may suggest."
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"O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!"
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"Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian."
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"In the gentle evening freeze, by the whispering shady trees I will find sanctuary in the Lord."
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"There is no possible source of evil except good."
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"When I speak of religion I mean a constant inward sense of communion with God."
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"Sacred religion! mother of form and fear."
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"Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference."
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"Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not."
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"The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul."
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