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• I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

  Isaac Asimov

  Topics in Religion, Uncategorized

  Tags in Afterlife, Heaven, Hell

• Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Patriotism

• People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Topics in Religion, Uncategorized

  Tags in Misery, Tavern, Church

• The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God conceived in man”s image; so that there can be no church whose central teachings are based on it. Hence it is precisely among the heretics of every age that we find men who were filled with this highest kind of religious feeling and were in many cases regarded by their contemporaries as atheists, sometimes also as saints. Looked at in this light, men like Democritus, Francis of Assisi, and Spinoza are closely akin to one another.

  Albert Einstein

  Topics in Art, God, Religion

• I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Religion, Uncategorized

  Tags in Agnosticism Atheism, Immortality, Heaven, Hell

• We have to believe in free-will. We’ve got no choice.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Topics in Religion
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  A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.

  Carl Sandburg

  Topics in Family, God, Religion

  Tags in Opinion, Should

• If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Topics in Inspirational, Religion

  Tags in Motivation

• If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

  Zig Ziglar

  Topics in God, Religion, Society

  Tags in Commandments, Live

• Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

  Jose Saramago

  Topics in Death, Religion

• I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among [those] in the second half of life-that is to say, over 35-there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

  Carl Gustav Jung

  Topics in Religion
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  The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Topics in Life, Love, Religion

  Tags in Compassion

• There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.

  Anna Sewell

  Topics in Religion

• All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

  Frederick William II

  Topics in Religion, Uncategorized

  Tags in Religions, Heaven, Philosophy

• Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in God, Inspirational, Religion

  Tags in Prayer

• I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Religion, Uncategorized

  Tags in Like, Preaching, Better, Church

• Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

  Lenny Bruce

  Topics in God, Religion

• The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.

  George Burns

  Topics in Religion, Uncategorized

  Tags in Secret, Sermon

• I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.

  Bill Maher

  Topics in Religion, Uncategorized

  Tags in Disorder, Initiative, Great, Flying

• What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

  A.W. Tozer

  Topics in God, Religion, Uncategorized