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

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

"Only the Prince of Peace gives peace."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Unlike most other world religions, Buddhism has never been too rigid in its structure."
Explore more quotes by James Russell Lowell

"Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not."

"As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend."

"Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."

"He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft."

"Let us be of good cheer however remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come."

"The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience."
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