Quotes and sayings about tag  religion

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

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• Humor

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

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• Faith

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.

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• Science

My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular level.

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• Truth

The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.

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• Science

God is an ever-receding pocket of? scientific ignorance.

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• Science

Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.

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• Faith

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

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• Science

belief is the death of intelligence.

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• Faith

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on TheeAnd I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

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• Humor

We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.

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• Faith

Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God.

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• Humor

Here's an easy way to figure out if you're in a cult: If you're wondering whether you're in a cult, the answer is yes.

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• Humor

So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?

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• Science

There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.

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• Science