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Letter "R" » Religion
«No matter how much I probe and prodI cannot quite believe in God,But, oh, I hope to God that HeUnswervingly believes in me.»
«My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.»
Author: George Santayana
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Humanist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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About:
Atheism,
Humanity,
Religion
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Keywords:
atheism,
denies,
fashioned,
interests,
piety,
servants,
Spinoza
«Most people have some sort of religion, at least they know which church they're staying away from»
Author: John Erskine
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Educator,
Musician,
Novelist)
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About:
Religion
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Keywords:
at least,
church,
Church A,
Church of the,
least,
my church,
sort,
sorted,
sorting,
sort of,
sort out,
staying
«My principal objections to orthodox religion are two - slavery here and hell hereafter»
«My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.»
«Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.»
«Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.»
«My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.»
«Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, half infidelity»
«My childhood was full of deep sorrows -- colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.»