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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
Religious

"The action of Pity leaps quicker than light from the highest place to the lowest to bring healing and joy, whatever the cost to itself. It changes darkness into light and evil into good. But it will not, at the cunning tears of Hell, impose on good the tyranny of evil. Every disease that submits to a cure shall be cured: but we will not call blue yellow to please those who insist on having jaundice, nor make a midden of the world's garden for the sake of some who cannot abide the smell of roses."

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Paul Martin Politician
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"The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so."

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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
Religious

"Synchronistic events provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory patterning of events in nature as a whole, both inwardly and outwardly."

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Benjamin Carson Neurosurgeon, Author, Politician
Religious

"It is absolutely vital that we do all we can to allow Americans to practice their religious ways, while simultaneously ensuring that no one's beliefs infringe upon those of others. We should also serve as champions of freedom of religion throughout the world."

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David Barton Politician
Religious

"The current version of... separation of church and state says you can be salt, and you can be light, but only inside the four walls of the church."

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Cat Stevens Singer-songwriter
Religious

"Man may live and man may die searching for the question why. But if he tries to rule the sky, he must fall."

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Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
Religious

"To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man."

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Bono Musician, Activist
Religious

"God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm."

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Alan Watts Philosopher, Writer
Religious

"To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union his religious life will be an empty drudgery, a mere imitation of true spirituality."

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Albert Einstein Physicist
Religious

"I believe in mystery and, frankly, I sometimes face this mystery with great fear. In other words, I think that there are many things in the universe that we cannot perceive or penetrate, and that also we experience some of the most beautiful things in life only in a very primitive form. Only in relation to these mysteries do I consider myself to be a religious man."

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Albert Einstein Physicist
Religious

"But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
Religious

"Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday. In spite of its religious form (giving thanks to God for a good harvest), its essential, secular meaning is a celebration of successful production. It is a producers’ holiday. The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production. Abundance is (or was and ought to be) America’s pride-just as it is the pride of American parents that their children need never know starvation."

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Wilferd Peterson Author and Speaker
Religious

"Release your problem to God with a prayer that the answer will come in its own good time and place. Hold the attitude of faith and expectancy, knowing that God has all the answers, that His knowledge is limitless and can never be exhausted."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious."

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are nothings, or that there is no god, no angels, no soul. I cannot reason otherwise: but I believe I am supported in my creed of materialism by Locke, Tracy, and Stewart. At what age of the Christian church this heresy of immaterialism, this masked atheism, crept in, I do not know. But heresy it certainly is."

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Religious

"All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution."

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