“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
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“We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.”
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“Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.”
“But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most.”
Mark Twain's Autobiography, p117
“Religion is the opium of the masses.”
“The way to see by faith, is to shut the eye of reason.”
“There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.”
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion.”
“Don't give your money to the church. They should be giving their money to you.”
“I am a child of God, an inheritor of a fragment of the mind that created all worlds.”
“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”
“I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.”
“You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.”
“To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.”
“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
“Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.”
“You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.”
“No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.”
“Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.”
“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.”
“I thank God for my handicaps, for through them I have found myself, my work and my God.”
WinstonDo you believe in God?
RayNever met him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK6hI423gcw&t=7s
“When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.”
“In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.”
“I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.”