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- There is a growing suspicion that what the world needs now is a religion that will cover the other six days of the week.
- Author Unknown
- Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- I never told my religion nor scrutinize that of another. I never attempted to make a convert nor wished to change another's creed. I have judged of others' religion by their lives, for it is from our lives and not from our words that our religion must be read. By the same test must the world judge me.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- A religion which requires persecution to sustain it is of the devil's propagation.
- Hosea Ballou (1796 - 1861)
- Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.
- John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
- Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people.
- Jean Guehenno
- Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
- Strong reasons make strong actions.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
- Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
- Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other.
- Luther
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