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Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it.

- Charles Caleb Colton

If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said No.

- Margaret Smith

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

- Kahlil Gibran

Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.

- Marianne Williamson

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said Let us pray. We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

- Desmond Tutu

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!

- George Bernard Shaw

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

- Edmund Burke

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

- Soren Kierkegaard

When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.

- Frank Sinatra

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

- Galileo Galilei