religion

"It is God’s will that we hold us in comfort with all our might: for bliss is lasting without end, and pain is passing and shall be brought to nought for them that shall be saved. And therefore it is n…"

"Recreation is not the highest kind of enjoyment; but in its time and place it is quite as proper as prayer."

"Often does the memory of former times come, like the evening sun, on my soul."

"I will not suffer the Christian religion to be reviled, while I sit in this Court, and possess the power of preventing it."

"Oh, god, where's the fuckin' bottle, you fuckin' whore?! DID HE FUCK YOU WITH THIS TOO?! Yes-- OH, SHUT UP!!! HE DID EVERYTHING TO YOU, OH, GOD!!!!"

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"He that buildeth his nest upon a Divine promise shall find it abide and remain until he shall fly away to the land where promises are lost in fulfillments."

"The power of God is the worship He inspires.... The worship of God is not a rule of safety — it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable. The death of religion comes with the rep…"

"However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God is the Ultimate Boeing 747"

"Not one single action you voluntarily make - in body or soul - stays within itself. It lasts forever. A full-stop can't be placed at the end, for there is no end."

"Oh that you would arise in Christ's strength, and do what possibly you can for God, though you cannot do what you would and what you should!"

"1590. For Fashion's sake, as Dogs go to Church."

"Xenophanes was the first person who asserted... that the soul is a spirit."

"Thought forms in the soul the same way clouds form in the air."

"For when a nation becomes civilized, if it does not drop human sacrifices altogether, it at least selects as victims only such wretches as would be put to death at any rate. Thus the killing of a god …"

"Religions are manipulated in order to serve those who govern society and not the other way around."

"The United States is a generically religious society. That is, in the United States it's not important which religion you adhere to, as long as you have one."

"The temple is holy because it is not for sale."

"I seem to myself, among civilised men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers."

"If your actions are motivated by selfish interests rather than God, you are mortgaging tomorrow's joy."