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"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."
Jonathan Swift

"I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit."
Kahlil Gibran

"Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife."
Kahlil Gibran

"If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul."
Kahlil Gibran

"There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave."
Louis Kronenberger

"If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses."
Lenny Bruce

"We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened."
Mark Twain

"But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?"
Mark Twain

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
Mohandas Gandhi

"If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No.""
Margaret Smith

"Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface."
Marianne Williamson

"If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god."
Napoleon Bonaparte

"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."
Napoleon Bonaparte

"Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual."
Paul Tournier

"God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through."
Paul Valery

"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."
Richard Burton

"One man's theology is another man's belly laugh."
Robert A. Heinlein

"Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything."
Robert A. Heinlein

"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane."
Robert Green Ingersoll

"Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays."
Soren Kierkegaard

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