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- Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
- A. J. Toynbee
- 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)
- He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.
- Jeremy Taylor (1613 - 1667)
- Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
- Austin O'Malley
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