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"If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless."
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"One Lord, one faith and one baptism."
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"After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful."
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"If he is not the word of God, then God never spoke."
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"The common mistake of the religious celibate has been to suppose that the highest spiritual life absolutely demands the renunciation of sexuality, as if the knowledge of God were an alternative to the knowledge of woman, or to any other form of experience."
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"It is possible to conceive, Anselm said, of a being than which nothing greater can be conceived. Even an atheist can conceive of such a superlative being, though he would deny its existence in the real world. But, goes the argument, a being that doesn't exist in the real world is, by that very fact, less than perfect. Therefore we have a contradiction and, hey presto, God exists!"
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"Unity despite diversity is exactly what defines Christianity as distinct from and antithetical to all other religious belief systems."
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"He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually."
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"Dream not that worldlings will admire you, or that the more holy and the more Christ-like you are, the more peaceably people will act towards you. They prized not the polished gem, how should they value the jewel in the rough?"
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"Not only then has each man his individual relation to God but each man has his peculiar relation to God."
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"Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness."
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"Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared."
Life
"More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators."
Politics
"If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless."
Religion
"Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family."
Family
"Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?"
Friendship
"There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation."
Power
"One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound."
Education
"There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are."
People
"The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind."
Creativity
"Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something."
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