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Source: Nearer, My God

“The Constitution had provided that all the public functionaries of the Union...should be under oath or affirmation for its support. The homage of religious faith was thus superadded to all the obligations of temporal law to give it strength.”

Giving Should Law Religious Support Constitution Unions Obligation Affirmation Religious Faith Oath Homage

Author:John Quincy Adams

“When I am engaging with people of other religious faiths, I find myself unable to commit to their conclusions or agree with their assessments. Yet at the same time I come away encouraged by spiritual truths found in their traditions, thrilled by new insights into my own faith, and more passionate than ever about being a disciple of Christ.”

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Book:Nudge: Awakening Each Other to the God Who's Already There

Source: Nudge: Awakening Each Other to the God Who's Already There

“To speak of beauty is to enter another and more exalted realm-a realm sufficiently apart from our everyday concerns as to be mentioned only with a certain hesitation. People who are always in praise and pursuit of the beautiful are an embarrassment, like people who make a constant display of their religious faith. Somehow, we feel such things should be kept for our exalted moments, and not paraded in company, or allowed to spill out over dinner.”

Source: Beauty: A Very Short Introduction

“Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.”

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Author:Michele Bachmann

“The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great skepticism can find expression.”

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Author:Malcolm Muggeridge

“Where we get into problems, typically, is when our personal religious faith, or the community of faith that we participate in, tips into a sort of fundamentalist extremism, in which it's not enough for us to believe what we believe, but we start feeling obligated to, you know, hit you over the head because you don't believe the same thing. Or to treat you as somebody who's less than I am.”

Knows Believe Enough Feelings Problem Community Religious Treats Don't Believe Religious Faith Extremism Fundamentalist

Author:Barack Obama

“Religious faith is an important aspect of American culture and a fact of American political life.”

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Book:Collected Papers

Source: Collected Papers

“I think there is and ultimate answer in a true religious faith, but it doesn't give you any immediate answers, it doesn't.”

Thinking Giving Religious Answers Ultimate Religious Faith

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“Tibet, why is it occupied? For political reasons maybe they have a reason. I don't know. But religiously, why? The fact that the religious community is being oppressed and persecuted is something that every single person in the world who has any religious faith and religious feeling for - for people who have faith should speak up.”

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Author:Elie Wiesel

“I happen to be a scientist. My background is in nuclear physics. I was a nuclear engineer. But I don't see any incompatibility at all with my religious faith and God the creator of everything and the incompatibility between when the earth was created as specified in the Bible. I don't see any incompatibility there because those that were interpreting God's overall message didn't know anything about modern-day science.”

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Author:Jimmy Carter

“[Animals] appreciate others' affection, they also have the sort of ability to show their own affection. And then as soon as we're born, child, no religious faith.”

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Author:Dalai Lama

“Reagan saw the Soviet Union as evil, all right, and not only because it was responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of people but also because it was atheistic. [Vladimir] Lenin said that religious faith and communism were incompatible.”

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Author:Paul Kengor

“The rate of change is global now. I think there's a kind of mind that is so ill at ease with that transformation that it reaches out for something permanent. And religious faith offers that, from simplicities, which you are told are eternal and unchanging, and you can hold on to those like a life raft in a metamorphosing world.”

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Author:Salman Rushdie

“I really don't know why people have so much trouble now writing about religious faith. It is true that clichés can override more interesting impulses. But the desire to find meaning, to be generous, to live well in an ethical and spiritual sense, is so widespread that it should not seem alien to people when it is expressed in the terms of traditional religion.”

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Author:Marilynne Robinson

“There's one America that Barack Obama wants, and there's a very different America that I want. I want an America that is entrepreneurial, that has a strong private sector in which religious faith is respected and even nourished, in which there's vigorous debate across the spectrum, and in which our universities teach real history instead of propaganda. Certainly the decline of America is a choice, though the outcome is not foreordained. But liberty is also a choice, and I'm doing my best to persuade the people of America to make the latter choice.”

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Author:Dinesh D'Souza

“In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his public role as a policymaker.”

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Author:Mike McCurry

“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”

“Faith: not wanting to know what is true.”

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.”

Source: The Theological Works of Thomas Paine

“It strikes me as odd that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem, something America is stuck with instead of blessed with.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.”

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Book:Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt

Source: Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt

“Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.”

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Author:Michael Shermer

“All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.”

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Author:Elie Wiesel

“Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they are invincibly brought back to more pious sentiments. Unbelief is an accident, and faith is the only permanent state of mankind.”

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Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.”

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we need to hold on to the wild and beautiful places that once surrounded us.”

Needs Humans Beautiful Loses Religious Land Rooted Religious Faith Intangible Beautiful Places Exodus

Book:Small Wonder

Source: Small Wonder

“To prove religious faith by human reason is rationalistic claptrap.”

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Author:Jostein Gaarder

“The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention—distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims and by the paucity of its evidence—is really too great a monstrosity to be appreciated in all its glory. Religious faith represents so uncompromising a misuse of the power of our minds that it forms a kind of perverse, cultural singularity—a vanishing point beyond which rational discourse proves impossible.”

Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

“I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.”

Source: The Theological Works of Thomas Paine

“My faith in the expertise of physicists like Richard Feynman, for instance, permits me to endorse—and, if it comes to it, bet heavily on the truth of—a proposition that I don't understand. So far, my faith is not unlike religious faith, but I am not in the slightest bit motivated to go to my death rather than recant the formulas of physics. Watch: E doesn't equal mc2, it doesn't, it doesn't! I was lying, so there!”

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Author:Daniel Dennett

“I think I understand that religious faith which makes the holy brave and strong; my strength is just somewhere else--it's in myself...I do not fear what may await me, though I'm equally confident that nothing awaits.”

Thinking May Strong Religious Holy Brave Somewhere Else Religious Faith Do Not Fear Brave And Strong

Author:Jon Krakauer

“The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.”

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

“We shortchange ourselves by regarding religious faith as a matter of intellectual assent. This is a modern aberration; the traditional Christian view is far more holistic, regarding faith as a whole-body experience. Sometimes it is, as W.H. Auden described it, 'a matter of choosing what is difficult all one's days as if it were easy.”

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Author:Kathleen Norris

“In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs.”

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Author:Alexandre Dumas

“It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith... these taboos are offensive, deeply unreasonable, but worse than that, they are getting people killed. This is really my concern. My concern is that our religions, the diversity of our religious doctrines, is going to get us killed. I'm worried that our religious discourse- our religious beliefs are ultimately incompatible with civilization.”

“Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.”

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Book:The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

“We should acknowledge God merciful, but not always for us comprehensible.”

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Book:Villette

Source: Villette

“Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular Ideology (Ideologies are the modern form of Faiths) and just stopped thinking.”

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Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn't matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification.”

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Author:Richard Dawkins

“As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.”

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Book:Heart's Blood

Source: Heart's Blood

“I find it much easier to counsel than to be counseled, to reach out to a friend in my small group who is feeling insercure than to reveal my own inseurity. The truth is we don't much like being dependent. We don't enjoy admitting how desperately we long for someone's kindness and involvement. It's so humbling.”

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Author:Larry Crabb

“I hear Jesus telling us to stop negotiating with Him, to stop offering something we think we have in exchange for His blessings.”

Thinking Jesus Blessing Offering Religious Faith Negotiating

Book:Shattered Dreams: God's Unexpected Path to Joy

Source: Shattered Dreams: God's Unexpected Path to Joy

“The problem sincere Christians have with God often comes down to a wrong understanding of what this life is meant to provide.”

Problem Christian Life Is Understanding This Life Sincere Religious Faith Shattered Dreams

Book:Shattered Dreams: God's Unexpected Path to Joy

Source: Shattered Dreams: God's Unexpected Path to Joy

“I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.”

“In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.”

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Author:Jimmy Carter

“Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths”

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Author:Tony Benn

“The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.”

“You are never dedicated to do something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kind of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.”

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Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“Of the liberty of conscience in matters of religious faith, of speech and of the press; of the trial by jury of the vicinage in civil and criminal cases; of the benefit of the writ of habeas corpus; of the right to keep and bear arms.... If these rights are well defined, and secured against encroachment, it is impossible that government should ever degenerate into tyranny.”

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