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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

by H. L. Mencken (born in 1880) keywords: avoid, catholic, chemistry, forbidden, lawful, mathematics, now, physics, pregnancy, quite, resort, she, still, though , woman

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

by H. L. Mencken (born in 1880) keywords: beautiful, children, extent, fellow, his, must, only, other, religion, respect, sense, smart, theory , wife

Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.

by Dennis Miller (born in 1953) keywords: again, born, excuse, first, getting, right , time

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

by John Morley (born in 1838) keywords: crime, duty, examine, heat, laws, pretty, sun, sure, where , worship

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

by Friedrich Nietzsche (born in 1970) keywords: bad, christian, find, made, resolution, ugly , world

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

by Blaise Pascal (born in 1623) keywords: beings, divine, human, known, loved , must

George Santayana

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

by George Santayana (born in 1970) keywords: bible, dogma , literature

George Bernard Shaw

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

by George Bernard Shaw (born in 1856) keywords: always, believes, bible, convinced, ever, man, means , says

George Bernard Shaw

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

by George Bernard Shaw (born in 1856) keywords: advice, anything, knows, pope, sex, should, take , why

Sargent Shriver

Jews have suffered persecution from misguided Christians who tortured the Jews for their part in killing Christ. These Christians forgot that Christ died because of the sins of all men.

by Sargent Shriver (born in 1915) keywords: christ, jews, killing, sins, suffered , tortured

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

by Frank Sinatra (born in 1915) keywords: absolution, cash, deity, lip, mysterious, out, permits, service, some, sunday , wednesday

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

by Isaac Bashevis Singer (born in 1904) keywords: doubt, part, religion, religious, thinkers , were

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

by Margaret Smithkeywords: been, had, mary, said , would

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

by Elizabeth Cady Stanton (born in 1970) keywords: christian, memory, religion, soul, suffering , superstition

Christianity means a lot more than church membership.

by Billy Sunday (born in 1862) keywords: christianity, church , membership

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

by William Temple (born in 1970) keywords: coincidences , pray

Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.

by Paul Tournier (born in 1898) keywords: aloud, consideration, inevitably, leads, life, longer, mind, problems, psychological, recounting, spiritual, story, thinking , which

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.

by Desmond Tutu (born in 1931) keywords: africa, bible, came, closed, eyes, had, land, missionaries, opened, our, pray, said, them , us

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

by Paul Valery (born in 1871) keywords: everything, god, made, nothing, nothingness, out, shows , through

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

by Swami Vivekananda (born in 1863) keywords: believe, cannot, god, until , yourself

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