"Prayer is the forerunner of mercy."

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"A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Only the Prince of Peace gives peace."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Religion, Forgiveness, Faith, Death, Hope

"A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory."

Richard Dawkins, English Scientist

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"The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes."

Dave Barry, American Journalist

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"Keep your hope in the Lord."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Religion, Hope, Lord, Faith, Trust

"Religion is a cultural relic inherited from ancient civilizations that doctrinal influence persists globally in modern times. Religious people rely upon their notional belief in the primal innocence of human beings in order to support the abstract supposition of inherently benevolent God guiding human souls."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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"Unlike most other world religions, Buddhism has never been too rigid in its structure."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"It would be better to be deceived a hundred times than to live a life of suspicion."

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"This woman gained comfort in her misery by thinking GREAT THOUGHTS OF CHRIST."

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"Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings.How diligently they read them!Here they find their law and profits,their judges and chronicles,their epistles and revelations."

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"Jesus does not cherish an offense, loving us as well after the offense as before it."

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"All earth's candles cannot make daylight if the Sun of Righteousness be eclipsed. He is the soul of our soul, the light of our light, the life of our life."

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"The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace."

Faith, Holiness, Perseverance, Grace

"One good deed is more worth than a thousand brilliant theories. Let us not wait for large opportunities, or for a different kind of work, but do just the things we "find to do" day by day."

Kindness, Action, Values, Work

"The only restorative for a guilty conscience is a sight of Jesus suffering on the cross."

Faith, Conscience, Guilt, Suffering, Restoration

"It would be very difficult to draw a line between holy wonder and real worship; for when the soul is overwhelmed with the majesty of God's glory, though it may not express itself in song, or even utter its voice with bowed head in humble prayer, yet it silently adores."

Spiritual, Worship, Spirit, Faith, God

"The world commands our desire for purity but bids that we not be too precise about it."

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