“Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion.”
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
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“The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.”
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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“Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.”
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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“The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.”
— Desmond Tutu
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“The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.”
— Lytton Strachey
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“I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.”
— Mary Douglas
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“Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.”
— Dave Barry
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“God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.”
— Saint Augustine
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“A cult is a religion with no political power.”
— Tom Wolfe
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“Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.”
— Michael Shermer
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“Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.”
— Ernest Istook
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