If the 'I am the doer' idea goes, then only I Am remains and that 'I Am' has no religion.
The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of its foundation.
We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.
I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.
The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion.
Religions become corrupted when leaders are assigned to explain God's will to people instead of showing them how to find this direction within themselves.
Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be the innate virtues and splendors furnished him by his creator, infinite regression, drowned in praise!
Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.
If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.
When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.
All neurotics seek the religious
The strength of a country is the strength of its religious convictions.
I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.
Religions are not revealed: they are evolved. If a religion were revealed by God, that religion would be perfect in whole and in part, and would be as perfect at the first moment of its revelation as after ten thousand years of practice. There has never been a religion which fulfills those conditions.
Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.
The test of a man's conversion is whether he has enough Christianity to get it to other people. If he hasn't, there is something wrong.
The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.
A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.
I started lip-synching with "Losing My Religion. " There were a few horrendous mistakes we made, but I own those mistakes. I'm embarrassed by them. I always say when I look back at anything I've ever done, it's with equal dollops of humiliation and triumphant glory.