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Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. (Isaac Bashevis Singer)[][]
Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it. (Charles Caleb Colton)[][]
The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands unparalleled in the history of nations. (George Washington)[][]
A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds to religion. (Francis Bacon)[][]
We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another. (Jonathan Swift)[][]
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. (H. L. Mencken)[][]
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. (Abraham Joshua Heschel)[][]
The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions. (Abraham Joshua Heschel)[][]
That I am not a member of any Christian Church, is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures; and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular. (Abraham Lincoln)[][]
Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon. 1854 (Abraham Lincoln)[][]
What do I believe? As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is my relation to all life, my religion. And this is not so easy to talk about. Religious experience is highly intimate and, for me, ready words are not at hand. (Adlai E. Stevenson)[][]
What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it? I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life. (Albert Einstein)[][]
Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe. (Albert Einstein)[][]
At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols. (Aldous Huxley)[][]
Religion is what an individual does with his solitariness. (Alfred North Whitehead)[][]
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. (Anais Nin)[][]
A successful woman preacher was once asked "what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry?" "Not one," she answered, "except the lack of a minister's wife." (Anna Garlin Spencer)[][]
The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see. (Benjamin Franklin)[][]
Lighthouses are more helpful than churches. (Benjamin Franklin)[][]
Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome. (Benjamin Whichcote)[][]
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