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I had never been into society; for me the world was the enclosure of the college and the seminary. I had a vague knowledge that there was a something called woman, but I never dwelt upon the subject; I was absolutely innocent. I saw my infirm old mother only twice a year; that was the extent of my connection with the outside world. ↗

— Théophile Gautier

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All what we think and know is an illusion. Nothing exists. Everything is an opinion. ↗

— Ash Vaz

#god #religion #science #space-and-cosmos #religion

God does not bring two people together for the benefit of just one ↗

— Rosemary West

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One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#dogma #heresy #labels #orthodoxy #religion

Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound uneasiness about our highest social values. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

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Don't chew on it. Don't even let it touch your teeth. Above all, don't let it stick to the roof of your mouth. Oh, God, you did it. You let it happen. God is stuck to the roof of your mouth. How are you going to get Him off? You have to get this off and swallow it. What if it just gets hard and stays there? You can't walk around for the rest of the day with God in your mouth. Oh, God. Melt, melt. ↗

— Alan Alda

#humor #never-have-your-dog-stuffed #religion #religion

The assumption of no God cannot be proven by science. ↗

— Frank Olvera 'The Christian Noob'

#christian-fiction #christianity #science-and-religion #science-fiction #religion

If cricket is a Religion, then I'm a Priest. ↗

— Harwinder Singh Bhatia

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إن القرآن ومن ورائه علماء الكلام وأصول الدين،كلهم يجمعون على ضرورة طلب عقيدة الإيمان بوجود الله عن طريق النظر والاستدلال ↗

— عبد العزيز جاويش

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The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the 'American civil religion.' The president must invoke the name of God (though not Jesus), glorify America's heroes and history,quote its sacred texts (the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution), and perform the transubstantiation of pluribus unum. ↗

— Jonathan Haidt

#politics #presidents #psychology #religion #religion