"Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!"
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"If you have science and art, You also have religion; But if you don't have them, You better have religion."
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"Tom, had you and I been 40 days with Moses, and beheld the great God, and even if God himself had tried to tell us that three was one ... and one equals three, you and I would never have believed it. We would never fall victims to such lies."
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"The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate."
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"You have, at the same time, placed your confidence in me, and in my ability to render a free, fair judgment - to uphold the Constitution and my oath of office - and to reject any kind of religious pressure or obligation that might directly or indirectly interfere with my conduct of the Presidency in the national interest."
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"It would never occur to most of us that 'plants' say anything at all, except in terms of what we read into them, or try to use them for. Yet in their responses to this wonderfully rhythmic and varying earth they are the most expressive of all forms of life."
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"We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting."
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"I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo."
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"I've never voted. I've never voted yet although I could have voted for the last ten years."
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"I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason."
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"Peace is the gift of God. Do you want peace? Go to God. Do you want peace in four families? Go to God. Do you want peace to brood over your families? If you do, live your religion, and the very peace of God will dwell and abide with you, for that is where peace comes from, and it doesn't dwell anywhere else."
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"Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders."
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"One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty."
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"The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry"
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"What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man's imagination?"
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"God is a word to express, not our ideas, but the want of them."
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"Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity?"
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"The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible right, and denied absolutely that a human being is accountable to others for his religious belief. Yet so natural to mankind is intolerance in whatever they really care about, that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realised, except where religious indifference, which dislikes to have its peace disturbed by theological quarrels, has added its weight to the scale."
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"Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion."
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"There are many religions, but there is only one morality."
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