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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.
So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.
I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
The Son of God became man so that we might become God.
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
We are punished by our sins, not for them.
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.
I hope I never get so old I get religious.
I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.
Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.
There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Only a god can save us.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.
We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.
All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.

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