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Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a c

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life. – Paul Tillich

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Language… has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. – Paul Tillich

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It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead. – Robert G. Ingersoll

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God is innocent. Noah built in a flood plain. – Author Unknown

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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him. – Walter Savage Landor

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More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material. – Charles Eastman

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A lie is an excuse guarded. – Jonathan Swift

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Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one. – Elbert Hubbard, The Note-Book, 1927

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