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Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
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Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.
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When it's a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary
to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.
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Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral
relations with mankind.
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The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly
as if he granted that a horse-hair put into a bottle of water will turn into a snake.
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I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
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Some keep the Sabbath going to Church,
I keep it staying at Home -
With a bobolink for a Chorister,
And an Orchard, for a Dome.
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But we must not forget... this ritual expressed... certain ideas which lie at the very root of true religion, the fellowship
of the worshippers with one another in their fellowship with the deity, and the consecration of the bonds of kinship as the
type of all right ethical relations between man and man.
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A successful woman preacher was once asked "what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry?" "Not one," she
answered, "except the lack of a minister's wife."
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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Life becomes religious whenever we make it so: when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some
larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done.
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