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| C. S. Lewis |
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| "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither." |
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| Dennis Miller |
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| "Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time." |
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| Isaac Asimov |
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| "Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night." |
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| Isaac Bashevis Singer |
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| "Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters." |
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| Annie Dillard |
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| "Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"" |
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| Paul Valery |
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| "God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through." |
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| Douglas Adams |
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| "He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife." |
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| Blaise Pascal |
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| "Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known." |
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| Galileo Galilei |
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| "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." |
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| Arthur C. Clarke |
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| "I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her." |
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| Mohandas Gandhi |
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| "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." |
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| Kahlil Gibran |
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| "I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit." |
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| Henry Ward Beecher |
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| "I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love." |
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| Frederick Douglass |
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| "I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs." |
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| Albert Camus |
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| "I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is." |
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