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Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

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.

The church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.

Only the sinner has a right to preach.

Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.

One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.

The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after.

Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.

You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.

All religions must be tolerated, for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

While traveling near Tampa, Florida I passed the "Jehovah's Witness Assembly Hall" and was struck by the fact that that must be where they make them.

My mind is my own church.

Pray to God, but hammer away.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for--because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

The Bible is a window in this prison of hope, through which we look into eternity.