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There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.
Cat Stevens
In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Sign in lot: Church parking only. We will not forgive those who trespass against us.
Source Unknown
A group touring Westminster Abbey in London heard the guide list the famous people buried within its walls. During a momentary silence a little old lady's voice blurted out loud and clear, Anybody been saved here lately?
Though the church has many critics, it has no rivals.
Religion is never the problem it's the people who use it to gain power.
Julian Casablancas
A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
L. L. Nash
The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.
Robert Bork
Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.
Karen Armstrong
But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.
Liam Neeson
Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.
Laurence Sterne
She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].
Kurt Vonnegut
Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?
Mark Twain
Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.
Thomas Jefferson
I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.
Andrew Greeley
La science est une nouvelle religion et la désinfection est son eau bénite.
George Bernard Shaw
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
Samuel Johnson
I like his holiness very much, particularly since an order, which I understand he has lately given, that no more miracles shall be performed.
Lord (George Gordon) Byron
But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected.
Javier Bardem
It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
Pearl S. Buck