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“When you turn the discussion onto talk of religion, you will soon start to reveal a whole range of views ranging from the ardent supporter to the ardent atheist.”

Whole Religion Turns Views Atheist Range Discussion Supporter Ardent

Author:Arthur Hertzberg

“Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter.”

Matter Religion Turns Accepting Forgiving Release Forgive Yourself

Book:Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living

Source: Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living

“True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest.”

Giving Mind Religion Turns Pleasure Virtue Highest Cheerful True Religion

Author:Joseph Addison

“When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion.”

People Religion Turns Handle

Author:Erich Fromm

“Of course, Jastrow's comment is exaggerated at best; theologians hardly predicted the Big Bang. If our universe turns out to be closed, hence with an end, this does not mean apocalyptic visions of the end of the world were on target. And even if a beginning for the universe is a successful prediction of one version of theism, this is still not that impressive. After all, even a stopped clock is right twice a day. The Big Bang becomes strong support for God only with an argument showing that such a beginning requires a Creator.”

“One of the effects of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religion into poetry and therapy, to make truth vaguer and vaguer and more and more relative, to banish intellectual distinctions, to depend on feeling instead of thought, and gradually to come to believe that God has no power, that he cannot communicate with us, cannot reveal himself to us, indeed has not done so, and that religion is our own sweet invention.”

Believe Has Beens Done Feelings Religion Turns Women Modern Effects Sweet Depends Intellectual Communicate Invention Therapy Distinction Relative Protestantism

Author:Flannery O'Connor

“The word 'religion' takes on a sinister cast when one examines its root, religare, meaning 'to bind,' which in turn means 'to hold, to make prisoner, to restrain.”

Mean Religion Turns Roots Casts Prisoner Sinister

Author:Annie Laurie Gaylor

“Not everything in church is truth ... And not all truth turns up in church.”

Religion Turns Church

Book:The Cape Ann: A Novel

Source: The Cape Ann: A Novel

“Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.”

War Science Religion Turns Religious Professors Sincerity Dominant Science And Religion Doubted

Book:Figures of thought: speculations on the meaning of poetry & other essays

Source: Figures of thought: speculations on the meaning of poetry & other essays