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So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.

All religions have been made by men.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality.

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.