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I believe that, in this country, the press exerts a greater and a more pernicious influence than the church did in its worst period. We are not a religious people, but we are a nation of politicians. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

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Here is a good revolution in conscious and a good salvation formula for mankind: Get rid of religion, keep the God! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

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...the religion of the heart is as intimate as a wish breathed to the night sky... ↗

— John Geddes

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All I know is that there is always someone watching. ↗

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It's better to have a million small religions with each one containing a great truth. Than one great religion containing a million small truths. ↗

— Carla VanKoughnett

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Without religion, life would be a mistake ↗

— Humayun Akhtar

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(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious man turns to the idea of God. ↗

— Harold Bloom

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Cut me off from the Church? They can't do that! I repent do damn fast! ↗

— J. Golden Kimball

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Why would you accept the Jesus of the Bible, if you have rejected the Bible of Jesus? ↗

— Wes Moore

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Nothing out there tells us how we must live: we and we alone can now with confidence knowingly trust our own hearts, and admit that we do and must invent our own ethics. ↗

— Don Cupitt

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