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“If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.”

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Author:Kedar Joshi

“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.”

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Book:The New Complete Works of Josephus

Source: The New Complete Works of Josephus

“How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares 'God wills it thus.' Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the raving of insanity, superstition gone to seed! I want no part of such a God.”

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Author:Luther Burbank

“Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.”

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Book:Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

“God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.”

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Book:The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

“Each one prays to God according to his own light.”

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Book:All Religions are True

Source: All Religions are True

“My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.”

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Book:The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

“Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.”

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Book:Androcles and the lion: an old fable renovated : definitive text

Source: Androcles and the lion: an old fable renovated : definitive text

“It is a fact that unless children are brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, they, and the society which they constitute or control, will go to destruction. Consequently, when a state resolves that religious instruction shall be banished from the schools and other literary institutions, it virtually resolves on self-destruction.”

Source: Systematic Theology

“The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved -- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally, patriarchal -- God is the Omnipotent Father -- hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates.”

Source: The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

“Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.”

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Book:Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion

Source: Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion

“Do not entertain the notion that you ought to advance in your prayer. If you do, you will only find you have put on the brake instead of the acceleration. All real progress in spiritual things comes gently, imperceptibly, and is the work of God. Our crude efforts spoil it. Know yourself for the childish, limited and dependent soul you are. Remember that the only growth which matters happens without our knowledge and that trying to stretch ourselves is both dangerous and silly. Think of the Infinite Goodness, never of your own state.”

“metaphors for God drawn from human experience can easily be literalized. While we are immediately aware that the personal God is not really a rock or a mother eagle, it is easy enough to imagine that God is really a king or a father.”

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Book:Women and the Word: The Gender of God in the New Testament and the Spirituality of Women

Source: Women and the Word: The Gender of God in the New Testament and the Spirituality of Women

“the gender of God, God's presumed masculinity, has functioned as the ultimate religious legitimization of the unjust social structures which victimize women.”

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Book:Women and the Word: The Gender of God in the New Testament and the Spirituality of Women

Source: Women and the Word: The Gender of God in the New Testament and the Spirituality of Women

“We see that it is not the task of Christianity to provide easy answers to every question, but to make us progressively aware of a mystery. God is not so much the object of our knowledge as the cause of our wonder.”

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Book:The Orthodox Way

Source: The Orthodox Way

“When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.”

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Book:The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.”

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Author:Victor Hugo

“Where is there such an one who has not a thousand times been struck with a sort of infidel idea, that whatever other worlds God may be Lord of, he is not the Lord of this; for else this world would seem to give the lie to Him; so utterly repugnant seem its ways to the instinctively known ways of Heaven.”

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Book:Pierre; or The Ambiguities

Source: Pierre; or The Ambiguities

“I began to expand my personal service in the church, and to search more diligently for a closer relationship with God among my different business, professional and political interests.”

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Book:Why Not the Best?: The First Fifty Years

Source: Why Not the Best?: The First Fifty Years

“Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord.”

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Book:The poetry of Robert Frost

Source: The poetry of Robert Frost

“For forty days, for forty nights Jesus put one foot in front of the other and the man he carried, if it was a man, became heavier and heavier.”

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Author:Anne Sexton

“I who was a house full of bowel movement, I who was a defaced altar, I who wanted to crawl toward God could not move nor eat bread.”

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Book:The Awful Rowing Toward God

Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God

“God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine.”

Ifs God Religion Sun Sea Sandpaper

Book:The Awful Rowing Toward God

Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God

“True. There is a beautiful Jesus. He is frozen to his bones like a chunk of beef. How desperately he wanted to pull his arms in! How desperately I touch his vertical and horizontal axes! But I can't. Need is not quite belief.”

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Book:Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

“If I meet the Christian Deity, I am lost: He is a tyrant and as such, is full of ideas of vengeance; His Bible speaks of nothing but fearful punishments. I never loved Him! I could never even believe that anyone did love Him sincerely. He is devoid of pity.... He will punish me in some abominable manner.”

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Book:The Red and the Black: World Classics

Source: The Red and the Black: World Classics

“The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver.”

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Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“As for our gods, we have a few too many to be true.”

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Author:Pierre Corneille

“When will the veil be lifted that casts so black a night over the universe? God of Israel, lift at last the gloom: For how long will you be hidden?”

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Author:Jean Racine

“The barometer that shows "variable" is an ironic indictment of God.”

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Author:Jose Bergamin

“I always feel as if I stood naked for the fire of Almighty God to go through me--and it's rather an awful feeling. One has to be so terribly religious to be an artist.”

Ifs Feels Art God Feelings Artist Religion Religious Fire Naked Awful Almighty Almighty God

Book:The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“We do not see God, but everywhere we see something divine; first and most typically in the center of a reasonable man, in the depth of a living human product. You can directly feel and think nature, the universe, but not the Godhead. Only the man among men can poetize and think divinely and live with religion.”

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Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“The laws of God work in the same way as the laws of Science. You cannot break them - you can only break yourself against them.”

Way God Law Religion Break

Author:Maude Royden

“If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.”

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Author:Saint Augustine

“I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.”

Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives

“In the past 10,000 years, humans have devised roughly 100,000 religions based on roughly 2,500 gods. So the only difference between myself and the believers is that I am skeptical of 2,500 gods whereas they are skeptical of 2,499 gods. We're only one God away from total agreement.”

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Author:Michael Shermer

“Faith is not limited to affirming the existence of God. No, faith tells us that God loves us and demands a loving response. This response is given through love for human beings, and that is what we mean by a commitment to God and to our neighbor.”

“Prison is a severe and terrible punishment; but for me, thanks to Arthur Balfour, this was not so. I was much cheered on my arrival by the warder at the gate, who had to take particulars about me. He asked my religion, and I replied 'agnostic.' He asked how to spell it, and remarked with a sigh: 'Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God.' This remark kept me cheerful for about a week.”

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Book:Autobiography

Source: Autobiography

“God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.”

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Book:A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard

Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard

“Gods always behave like the people who make them.”

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Author:Zora Neale Hurston

“It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.”

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”

“You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”

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Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.”

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”

Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

“A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.”

Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

“I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.”

“Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.”