• To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  4.0 · 21 votes · 67 reads

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• To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing,

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.0 · 22 votes · 74 reads

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• To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life)

  

  André Breton

  WriterFrench1896 · 19th century

  3.9 · 26 votes · 65 reads

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• To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  4.2 · 38 votes · 2 reads

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• Toleration is the best religion.

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  4.5 · 31 votes · 94 reads

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• Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.2 · 34 votes · 146 reads

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• W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained.

  

  Voltaire

  WriterFrench1694 · 17th century

  4.8 · 22 votes · 55 reads

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• We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

  

  Joseph Joubert

  French1754 · 18th century

  3.4 · 32 votes · 176 reads

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• We are each of us angels with only one wing, to fly we need only embrace each other.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 51 votes · 182 reads

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• We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  3.0 · 44 votes · 195 reads

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• We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  3.0 · 58 votes · 178 reads

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• We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  4.1 · 52 votes · 132 reads

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• We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.1 · 59 votes · 57 reads

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• We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know which will go first; rock and roll or Christianity.

  

  John Lennon

  MusicianBritish1940 · 20th century

  4.4 · 39 votes · 186 reads

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• Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  3.1 · 29 votes · 101 reads

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• What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say ''I know'' instead of ''I am learning,'' and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.0 · 13 votes · 119 reads

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• What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  3.1 · 14 votes · 180 reads

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• What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

  

  Jonathan Swift

  WriterIrish1667 · 17th century

  4.0 · 6 votes · 159 reads

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• When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.

  

  Karl Kraus

  WriterAustrian1874 · 19th century

  3.7 · 10 votes · 44 reads

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• When ever a person talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not their reason, but their passions, which have got the better of their beliefs. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbours; and when they separate,

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  Laurence Sterne

  WriterBritish1713 · 18th century

  3.8 · 39 votes · 56 reads

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• When Thomas Paine showed Benjamin Franklin the manuscript of The Age of Reason, Franklin advised him not to publish it, saying, ''The world is bad enough with the Bible; what would it be without it?''

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  Anonymous

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• When we die and go to Heaven, our Maker is not going to say, ''Why didn't you discover the cure for such and such?'' The only thing we're going to be asked at that precious moment is ''Why didn't you become you? ''

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  Anonymous

  4.5 · 51 votes · 121 reads

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• When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century

  3.7 · 28 votes · 159 reads

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• When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, ''It is talking to me, and about me.''

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  Sophocles

  PoetGreek

  3.0 · 30 votes · 127 reads

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• Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than th

  

  Thomas Mann

  AuthorGerman1875 · 19th century

  4.8 · 9 votes · 149 reads

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• Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.

  

  Martin Luther

  LeaderGerman1483 · 15th century

  3.3 · 23 votes · 63 reads

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• Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.

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  Saint Thomas Aquinas

  TheologianRoman1224 · 13th century

  5.0 · 24 votes · 90 reads

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• While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  4.2 · 26 votes · 137 reads

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• Who hates the Jews more than the Jew?

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  4.4 · 18 votes · 72 reads

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• With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

  

  Jean Anouilh

  PlaywrightFrench1910 · 20th century

  4.6 · 19 votes · 156 reads

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• Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

  

  Jean Paul

  ComedianGerman1763 · 18th century

  4.8 · 47 votes · 78 reads

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• Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.

  

  Martin Luther King Jr.

  LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century

  4.4 · 51 votes · 4 reads

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• You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

  

  James Joyce

  AuthorIrish1882 · 19th century

  4.1 · 14 votes · 194 reads

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• You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.9 · 30 votes · 150 reads

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• You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  3.6 · 50 votes · 68 reads

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• You should point to the whole man Jesus and say, ''That is God.''

  

  Martin Luther

  LeaderGerman1483 · 15th century

  3.2 · 52 votes · 185 reads

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• Young people in particular need real options to find a decent job and to lift their lives. I'm not sure the new Islamist governments will be the best to promote prosperity and growth.

  

  Jose Maria Aznar

  PoliticianSpanish1953 · 20th century

  4.0 · 43 votes · 134 reads

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• Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God.

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  Saint Thomas Aquinas

  TheologianRoman1224 · 13th century

  3.4 · 23 votes · 61 reads

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