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Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred.

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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

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It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.

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If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists' is to make a metaphysical utterance which cannot be either true or false. And by the same criterion, no sentence which purports to describe the nature of a transcendent god can possess any literal significance.

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In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing. But this is mere temporizing. If we wish courageously to pursue the question, we must, of course ask next where God comes from? And if we decide this to be unanswerable, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always existed?

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Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

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I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.

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If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

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ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke.

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If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go

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I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.

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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

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There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

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What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!

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I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get.

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There is nothing in religion but fiction.

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Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]

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A certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods.

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The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.

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