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Beware of the man of one book.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...

As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

A lot of people say to me, "Why did you kill Christ?" "I dunno... it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know." "We killed him because he didn't want to become a doctor, that's why we killed him.".

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

We are what we believe we are.

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.

You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

We are convinced that we are true soul mates. When I was fifteen and praying for my future wife, she was fourteen and praying for her future husband.

And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

It takes less time to do things right that to explain why you did it wrong.