“God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.”
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“The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.”
“I mean, I talk about being Jewish a lot. It's funny because I do think of myself as Jewish ethnically, but I'm not religious at all. I have no religion.”
“Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.”
“Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.”
“God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.”
“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 have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.”
“God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.”
“For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
“God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.”
“We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.”
“Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.”
“We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.”
“As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.”
“God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.”
“I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.”
“I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.”
“Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.”
“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”
“Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.”
“In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.”
“A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.”
“In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.”