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Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others. ↗

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Human beings feel an obligation to have a definate opinion on issues they can never truly know. They need to learn to be satisfied with "I don't know". ↗

— Nathanie Randall

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Allah is the Greatest. I'm just the greatest boxer ↗

— Muhammad Ali

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I've never been able to understand 'faith' myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infinitude of false ones - by faith alone. It strikes me as a sloppy way to run an organization, whether universe or a smaller one. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

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I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual. ↗

— Sela Ward

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Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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It's the same thing with faith, by the way." We don't want to get stuck having to go to services all the time, or having to follow all the rules. We don't want to commit to God. We'll take Him when we need Him, or when things are going good. But real commitment? That requires staying power‎-‎-‎-in faith and in marriage." And if you don't commit? I asked. "Your choice. But you miss what's on the other side." What's on the other side? "Ah." He smiled, "A happiness you cannot find alone. ↗

— Mitch Albom

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It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

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Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

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