"Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true."
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"Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists."
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"Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englishman will pick out a dissenter by his manners."
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"Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment."
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"Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line, Severing rightly his from thine, Which is human, which divine."
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"The first and last lesson of religion is, "The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal." It puts an affront upon nature."
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"Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death."
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"To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example."
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"If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him."
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"Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated."
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"The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments."
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"It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it!"
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"Now it seems that everything in the world stems from sources other than God, since the products of nature have their source in nature; deliberate effects can be traced back to human reason or will as their source. There is no need then to assume that God exists."
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"If we could only put God first, maybe this ugly trend could one day be reversed."
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"Properly speaking, all true work is religion."
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"It ought not to be unpleasant to say that which one honestly believes or disbelieves. That it so constantly is painful to do so, is quite enough obstacle to the progress of mankind in that most valuable of all qualities, honesty of word or of deed."
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"I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor."
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"No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth."
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"Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree."
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"Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none with mine; nor is it given to us in this life to know whether yours or mine, our friend's or our foe's, are exactly the right."
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