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• Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Topics in Religion

• 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.

  H. L. Mencken

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Lawful

• Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.

  Robert Harold Schuller

  Topics in God, Religion

  Tags in Seeds

• Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls.

  William Pennington

  Topics in Religion, Soul

  Tags in Unto, Thee

• If God did not exist it would be necessary for us to invent Him.

  Francois Marie Arouet

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Exist, Him

• I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another’s creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Religious

• Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

  Theodore H. White

  Topics in America, Politics, Religion

  Tags in Binding, Secular

• We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.

  Origen

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Obliged, Omit

• If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion.

  Origen

  Topics in Father, Religion

  Tags in Revelations, Prophets, Splendid

• Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

  G. K. Chesterton

  Topics in Religion

• When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

  Honoré de Balzac

  Topics in Religion

• Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.

  John Cale

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Draconian, Growing Up

• It’s not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a television talk-show host.

  Jim Bakker

  Topics in Gift, Religion

  Tags in Television

• Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don’t need.

  Bill Maher

  Topics in Belief, Religion

  Tags in Bureaucracy

• Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

  Bertrand Russell

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Destruction, Persecution, Insight

• Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

  Bertrand Russell

  Topics in Fear, Religion

  Tags in Guidelines, Adopt

• Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Training

• A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

  Aristotle

  Topics in Politics, Religion

  Tags in Morality

• If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Topics in Religion

• Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Unknowable