Quote by Walter Scott
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as wel

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine. – Walter Scott

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To always be intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it — this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed. – Walter Scott

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Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good… There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness. – Jonathan Sacks

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Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. – Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

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