The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Thomas JeffersonTags: philosophy religion atheism
The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive.
Sam HarrisTags: god religion george-w-bush
How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!
Benjamin FranklinTags: religion christmas christian-behavior
I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away. Actually, if he is keeping out of sight, it's because he's ashamed of his followers and all the cruelty and ignorance they're responsible for promoting in his name. If I were him, I'd want nothing to do with them.
Philip PullmanMy concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
Abraham LincolnTags: inspirational politics religion philosophical religious
Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...
C.S. LewisThe Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.
C.S. LewisTags: christianity god religion
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
Dag HammarskjöldReligion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us, what is inexplicable, what is awe-inspiring, what is frightening, what moves us to great wonder, and so on. That is the religious impulse, and it is part of our psychological makeup -- of everyone's psychological makeup.
Philip PullmanTags: religion
I am a religious person, although I am not a believer.
Philip PullmanTags: religion
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