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Religion

Faith is never identical with piety. – Karl Barth

Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe. – Elbert Hubbard

The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action. – Albert Einstein

Everyday people are straying away from the church and going back to God. – Lennie Bruce, The Essential Lennie Bruce, 1972

Puritanism: the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. – H.L. Mencken

The Virgin Mary was an unwed teenage mother. – Author Unknown

The Christian Right is neither. – Author Unknown

It will be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible. – George W. Foote

Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance. – John F. Schumaker, Corruption of Reality, Unified Theory of Religion, Hypnosis a

We are punished by our sins, not for them. – Elbert Hubbard

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui. – Helen Keller

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. – Agnes Repplier, Points of View

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. – G.K. Chesterton

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. – Mahatma Gandhi

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. – C. S. Lewis

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. – C. S. Lewis

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples my philosophy is kindness. – Dalai Lama

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. – Francis of Assisi

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul. – Khalil Gibran