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“If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers.”

Ifs Soul Religion Known Regard Prepared Sermons Evangelism

Author:George Frederick Pentecost

“Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.”

Men Form Religion Regard Atheist Positive Atheism Ancient Gods

Author:Aristotle

“It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.”

Source: Gandhi on Non-violence

“It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.”

Men Wells Said Facts Religion Regard Chiefs Well Said

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion, and I can only deplore the militant and essentially illiberal antireligionism which animated so much of nineteenth-century Continental liberalism. ... What distinguishes the liberal from the conservative here is that, however profound his own spiritual beliefs, he will never regard himself as entitled to impose them on others and that for him the spiritual and the temporal are different sphere which ought not to be confused.”

“My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.”

Humans Religion Born My Own Views Race Atheism Source Disease Regard Misery Atheist Positive Atheism Human Race

Book:Why I Am Not a Christian

Source: Why I Am Not a Christian

“The Christian religion, outwardly and even in intention humble, does, without meaning it, teach man to regard himself as the most important of all created things. Man surveys the starry heavens and hears with his ears of the plurality of worlds; yet his religion bids him believe that his alone out of these innumerable spheres is the object of his master's love and sacrifice.”

Men World Believe Doe Important Christian Religion Heaven Teach Sacrifice Objects Masters Ears Regard Intention Humble Spheres Surveys Love And Sacrifice

Book:Views and Opinions

Source: Views and Opinions

“To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard!”

Men Littles Religion Pay Regard Sake Excess

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Every brand of religion maintains, and is, a permanent mechanism for transmitting ideas and values - whether one regards those values as admirable or ridiculous. Secularist organizations, with their generally looser, nonhierarchical structures, lack the power to hand down and disseminate their heritage in such a systematic way.”

Way Ideas Hands Religion Values Organization Regard Down And Structure Ridiculous Brands Permanent Heritage Mechanism Admirable Systematic

Author:Susan Jacoby

“In a way, being a Mormon prepares you to deal with science fiction, because we live simultaneously in two very different cultures. The result is that we all know what it's like to be strangers in a strange land. It's not just a coincidence that there are so many effective Mormon science fiction writers. We don't regard being an alien as an alien experience. But it also means that we're not surprised when people don't understand what we're saying or what we think.”

“Every disastrous accident alarms us, and sets us on enquiries concerning the principles whence it arose: Apprehensions spring up with regard to futurity: And the mind, sunk into diffidence, terror, and melancholy, has recourse to every method of appeasing those secret intelligent powers, on whom our fortune is supposed entirely to depend.”

Mind Religion Secret Principles Depends Spring Intelligent Regard Method Fortune Terror Accidents Melancholy Alarms Apprehension Recourse Enquiry Diffidence

Book:An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion

Source: An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion

“In a word, the free Church in a free State has been the programme which led me to my first efforts, and which I continue to regard as just and true, reasonable and practical, after the studies of thirty years.”

Years Firsts Has Beens States Religion Church Effort Study Regard Practicals Thirty Reasonable Thirty Years Programmes Free State

Author:Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

“I regard irreligious people as pioneers. If there had been no priesthood the world would have advanced ten thousand times better than it has now.”

People Ifs World Religion Women Atheism Thousand Ten Regard Pioneers Priesthood

Author:Anandi Gopal Joshi

“I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.”

Religion Christianity Buddhism Regard Islam Hinduism

Book:The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

“When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.”

Men Mind Feelings Religion Strong Understanding Pleasure Cases Duty Drink Members Regard Casts Neglect Disorder Appetite Indulge Civil Society Strong Drink

Book:journal

Source: journal