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If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it read more
If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.
Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.
Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.
Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, read more
Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill because they pissed me off.
Once you begin to believe there is help "out there," you will know it to be true.
Once you begin to believe there is help "out there," you will know it to be true.
In isolated societies creeds can be preserved. It is where people of different traditions, outlook and creeds mingle freely and read more
In isolated societies creeds can be preserved. It is where people of different traditions, outlook and creeds mingle freely and exchange ideas that religious beliefs begin to be eroded. No one changes his beliefs without some instigation, some novel experience, some modification of the customary course of things, and in a closed society people believe what all their fellows obviously believe. Only when they are brought into contact with persons whom they respect holding different views do they begin to look at their inherited beliefs critically.
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with read more
Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
