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(901 votes)  -The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Pythagoras

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(826 votes)  God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way.

Anonymous

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(700 votes)  life is

Mother Teresa

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(681 votes)  Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

John Quincy Adams

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(670 votes)  We cannot be saved until we have risen above all our enemies, not the least of which is ignorance.

Joseph Smith

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(543 votes)  Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.

C. S. Lewis
1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(525 votes)  Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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(522 votes)  What is hateful to thyself do not do to another. That is the whole Law, the rest is Commentary.

Hillel

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(520 votes)  Religion is like holding on to a rock in the middle of a raging river; faith is learning how to swim.

Source Unknown

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(520 votes)  God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Voltaire

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(519 votes)  Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

Samuel Adams

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(516 votes)  The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

Richard Adams

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(509 votes)  O Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day; if I forget thee, do not thou forget me.

Sir Jacob Astley

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(499 votes)  A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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(492 votes)  Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.

Louis Aragon
1897-1982, French Poet

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(480 votes)  The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

Matthew Arnold

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(479 votes)  The truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion.

Kahlil Gibran

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(478 votes)  The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

Matthew Arnold
1822-1888, British Poet, Critic

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(470 votes)  Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Thornton Wilder

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(454 votes)  I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

Henry Ford

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(448 votes)  An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

Margaret Atwood

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(445 votes)  I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays--let them overtake me unexpectedly--waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself: Why this is Christmas Day!

David Grayson

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(438 votes)  The glory of God is inteligence, or, in other words, light and truth. D&C 93:36

Doctrine & Covenants

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(432 votes)  Trust no one to be your teacher...except he be a mon of God, walking in his ways and keeping his commandments. Mosiah 23:14

Book of Mormon

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(419 votes)  Give us a religion that will help us to live -- we can die without assistance.

Elbert Hubbard
1859-1915, American Author, Publisher

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(419 votes)  God loves the world. That's plain to see as we read His Word. Today, God loves the world through us, His Children of Grace. Christ is 'in' us and we are 'in' Christ. Christ is loving people and reaching out to them through us. He is making His appeal through us. He is reconciling people to Himself through us!

Mark McGee

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(417 votes)  Whatever principle of inteligence we attain unto in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection. D&C 130:18

Doctrine & Covenants

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(415 votes)  It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.

Thomas Merton

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(413 votes)  Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet

Napoleon Bonaparte

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(413 votes)  I hope I never get so old I get religious.

Ingmar Bergman

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(403 votes)  God made this world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

Isak Dinesen

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(403 votes)  The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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(401 votes)  The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

Alexis De Tocqueville
1805-1859, French Social Philosopher

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(400 votes)  And lips say ''God be pitiful,'' who never said, ''God be praised.''

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-1861, British Poet

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(399 votes)  Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

Harriet Martineau
1802-1876, British Writer, Social Critic

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(397 votes)  But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?

Harriet Martineau
1802-1876, British Writer, Social Critic

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(397 votes)  A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.

Carl Sandburg

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(392 votes)  The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

Mikhail Bakunin
1814-1876, Russian Political Theorist

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(392 votes)  A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

James Kern Feibleman

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(391 votes)  It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

Edgar Quinet
1803-1875, French Poet, Historian, Politician

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(389 votes)  Religion is the opium of the masses.

Karl Marx
1818-1883, German Political Theorist, Social Philosopher

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(387 votes)  Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.

Northrop Frye
1912-1991, Canadian Literary Critic

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(387 votes)  There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.

Suzanne Lafollette
1893-1983, American Feminist, Writer

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(387 votes)  A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

Abigail van Buren

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(382 votes)  I know God wouldn't give me anything I couldn't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.

Mother Therese

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(381 votes)  Like jewels in a crown, the precious stones glittered in the queen's round metal hat.

Jack Handey

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(372 votes)  The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.

Stephen King

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(365 votes)  The LIFE He LIVED qualified Him for the DEATH He DIED....but its the DEATH He DIED that qualifies us to receive the LIFE He LIVES!

major ian thomas

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(363 votes)  Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven.

P. J. O'Rourke

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(358 votes)  To St. Paul, stripes, stones, shipwrecks, and thorns in the flesh were religious experiences; to Judas Iscariot, the daily companionship of Jesus of Nazareth was not.

Leonard Hodgson

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