| "The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way imply that there is such a thing as religious knowledge...Unless he can formulate this 'knowledge' in propositions that are empirically verifiable, we may be sure that he is deceiving himself." »Alfred Jules Ayer |
| "I hope I never get so old I get religious." »Ingmar Bergman |
| "Theists and atheists are equally religious." »Kedar Joshi |
| "I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others." »William Orville Douglas |
| "I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult." »Rita Rudner |
| "Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters." »Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction." »Blaise Pascal |
| "The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms." »Henri Frdric Amiel |
| "A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain." »Jessamyn West |
| "The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief." »Sigmund Freud |
| "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." »John Quincy Adams |
| "Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty." »Samuel Adams |
| "People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die." »Saki |
| "Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal." »Lenore Hershey |
| "The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not." »Eric Hoffer |
| "Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves to the current view of the world and consecrate it." »John Dewey |
| "When holy and devout religious men Are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence So sweet is zealous contemplation." »William Shakespeare |
| "The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin." »George Jellinek |
| "I hope that no American ... will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage." »Peggy Noonan |
| "Life becomes religious whenever we make it so when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done." »Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs |
| "To St. Paul, stripes, stones, shipwrecks, and thorns in the flesh were religious experiences to Judas Iscariot, the daily companionship of Jesus of Nazareth was not." »Leonard Hodgson |
| "I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience." »Shelley Winters |
| "The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window." »Stephen King |
| "To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language." »George Santayana |
| "The religious community is essential, for alone our vision is too narrow to see all that must be seen. Together, our vision widens and strength is renewed." »Mark Morrison-Reed |
| "Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt." »Paul Johannes Tillich |
| "Ask a scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will be silent. Ask a religious person a very simple question on his religion, and he will be frenzied." »Kedar Joshi |
| "The only religious way to think of death is as a part and parcel of life to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as the inviolable condition of life." »Thomas Mann |
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