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    Garrison Keillor
    “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
    ― Garrison Keillor
    tags: humor, religion
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    Mark Twain
    “In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: beliefs, politics, religion
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: concern, empathy, listening, understanding-others
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    Mark Twain
    “A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: religion
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    Marquis de Sade
    “To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.”
    ― Marquis de Sade
    tags: atheism, god, religion
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    Vernon Howard
    “Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.”
    ― Vernon Howard
    tags: direction, guidance, inner-guidance, listening, self-awareness
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    Alice Duer Miller
    “People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.”
    ― Alice Duer Miller
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    Lucretius
    “All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.”
    ― Titus Lucretius Carus, On the Nature of Things: De rerum natura
    tags: religion
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    Steve Maraboli
    “Don’t tell me about your god with your words. Show me about your god with your actions.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
    tags: actions, christian-behavior, god, inspirational, motivational, religion
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  • #10
    “The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't talk much.”
    ― Germain G. Glidden
    tags: aging, listening
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  • #11
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: irreligion, organized-religion, religion
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    Langston Hughes
    “Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-”
    ― Langston Hughes
    tags: art, free-thought, philosophy, religion
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.”
    ― C. S. Lewis
    tags: christianity
    2466 likes

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  • #14
    “Religious people fear hell -- Spiritual people have walked thru it. ”
    ― Frank Warren, PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death, and God
    tags: inspirational, religion
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: compassion, enemies, friends, friendship, religion
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  • #16
    “All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance.”
    ― A.J. RUSSELL
    tags: god, life, truth, wisdom
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
    tags: christian-behavior, christianity, pacifism, religion
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  • #18
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: religion
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: religion
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  • #20
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: christian-behavior, christianity, religion
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  • #21
    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: atheism, organized-religion, religion
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    Hans Urs von Balthasar
    “What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”
    ― Hans Urs von Balthasar, Prayer
    tags: catholicism, christian-living, christianity, gift, god, inspirational, philosophy, spirituality
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    Zig Ziglar
    “If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.”
    ― Zig Ziglar
    tags: religion
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
    tags: atheism, child-abuse, children, feminism, hell, religion, religion-and-children, rhetorical-questions, sexism, women, women-and-religion
    1502 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: god, heart, humanity, inspirational, prayer, religion, souls, weakness
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    Robert Anton Wilson
    “belief is the death of intelligence.”
    ― Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins
    tags: atheism, belief, faith, intelligence, metaphysics, philosophy, religion
    986 likes

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  • #28
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “God has no religion.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: god, religion
    5302 likes

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  • #29
    Ronald Reagan
    “Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.”
    ― Ronald Reagan
    tags: bible, christianity
    576 likes

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  • #30
    Mark Twain
    “The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: animals, dogs, heaven, inspirational, man, religion
    949 likes



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