| Quotations on the subject: Religion |
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.
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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
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A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
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Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
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For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
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Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.
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My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
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