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▶ "Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair."; "Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation."; "You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself."; "When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out."; "The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs."; …"Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand."; "If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses."; "If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No.""; "Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat."; "Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?""; "When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land."; "Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays."; "We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."; "Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters."; "God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through."; "There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave."; "If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane."; "No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."; "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."; "I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs."; "Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known."; "Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear."; "Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."; "If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god."; "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."; "If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul."; "I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit."; "I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love."; "It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui."; "It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry."; "The Bible is literature, not dogma."; "The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."; "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."; "There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness."; "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."; "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither."; "Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God."
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