"In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others."
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"The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing."
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"On the subject of the nature of the gods, the first question is Do the gods exist or do the not? It is difficult you may say to deny that they exist. I would agree if we were arguing the matter in a public assembly, but in a private discussion of this kind, it is perfectly easy to do so."
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"Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]"
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"The beginning of religion, more precisely its content, is the concept of religion itself, that God is the absolute truth, the truth of all things, and subjectively that religion alone is the absolutely true knoweldge."
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"Pray to God, but row towards shore."
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"I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all."
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"Results like these [state of the earth] do not belong on the resumé of a supreme being."
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"Religion is sort of like a lift in your shoes. If it makes you feel better, fine. Just don't ask me to wear your shoes."
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"I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now."
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"Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself."
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"When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much. That soon spread to the middle and the beginning, because I couldn't have the end without them."
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"You don't need a passport and you don't need no visas, you don't need to designate or emigrate before you can see Jesus."
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"There are many faiths, but the spirit is one."
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"Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things."
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"Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes."
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"No religion can be built on force."
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"Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine feelings, on one's indomitable optimism and trust in life."
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"The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations."
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"One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon."
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