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Religion

«Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them, whatever metaphorical truth, I cannot accept them as credible explanations of reality; and they are incredible to me in proportion to the degree that they require my belief in positive human attributes and intervenient powers in their divinities.»
«We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.»
Author: John Gay (Dramatist, Poet) | About: Religion, Respect | Keywords: extent, The sense
«What has God revealed to man that has ever helped him get a living? K»
«What I conclude is that religion has nothing to do with experience or reason but with deep and irrational needs»
«We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides»
«We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.»
«What has religion to do with facts? Nothing»
«What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?»
Author: Thomas Kempis | About: Future, Religion | Keywords: anxiety
«What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.»
«We ought therefore to suspect that a great mass of information respecting the Bible, and the introduction of it into the world, has been suppressed by the united tyranny of Church and State, for the purpose of keeping people in ignorance, and which ought to be known.»