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“In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.”

Men World Want Religion Faith This World Affair Saved Poor Richard

Book:The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

“A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.”

Inspirational Doe Helping Religion Peace Interesting Inspirational Life Accounts Affair Solve Practicals Individualism Metaphysics

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“Many people conceive of religion as something apart from everyday affairs of the world. They think of it in terms of ceremony or ritual or sermons and often it strikes them as being dull or not particularly interesting. Religion may be described in many ways. I like to think of it as a medicine, a healing medicine for the mind.”

People Thinking World Way Mind May Religion Term Interesting Healing Medicine Everyday Affair Strikes Dull Ritual Sermons Ceremony

Book:Faith is the Answer: A Pastor and a Psychiatrist Discuss Your Problems

Source: Faith is the Answer: A Pastor and a Psychiatrist Discuss Your Problems

“I am fascinated by religion. (That's a completely different thing from believing in it!) It has had such an incalculably huge effect on human affairs. What is it? What does it represent? Why have we invented it? How does it keep going? What will become of it? I love to keep poking and prodding at it. I've thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is bound to spill over into my writing.”

Writing Years Believe Humans Doe Different Religion Effects Huge Bounds Affair Different Things Keep Going Fascinated Fascination Spills

Author:Douglas Adams

“Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.”

World Reality Religion This World Authority Gains Affair Reputation Magistrates Veneration

Author:John Tillotson

“I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation, or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.”

Believe Religion I Believe Nations President Religious Views Conditions Office Affair I Believe In Separation Between Church And State Religious Views

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion--religions are affairs of the rabble; I find it necessary to wash my hands after I have come into contact with religious people.”

People Hands Religion Religious Affair Contact Founders

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“I have always felt that a man's religion was his personal and private affair.”

Men Religion Felt Affair

Author:Leverett Saltonstall

“Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.”

Whole Religion Courses Affair

Author:Voltaire

“The more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs.”

Has Beens States Religion Belief Greater Periods Profound Affair Intense Cruelty Dogmatic Anti Religious Morality And Religion Religious Dogma

Book:Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

Source: Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects