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They reckon ill who leave me out;
When me they fly, I am the wings;
I am the doubter and the doubt,
And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Brahma (1857)In context
- God
These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğanborn 1954“PM Erdogan: The Term “Moderate Islam” Is Ugly And Offensive; There Is No Moderate Islam; Islam Is Islam”, Memri Turkish Media Blog (August 21, 2007)
The Church in the colonies is a white man’s Church, a foreigners’ Church. It does not call the colonized to the ways of God, but to the ways of the white man, to the ways of the master, the ways of the oppressor.
Frantz Fanon1925–1961The Wretched of the Earth (1961), p. 7
- Anti-Religion
- Race
People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
William Faulkner1897–1962As I Lay Dying (1930), Addie
Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels.
William Faulkner1897–1962The Sound and the Fury (1929), June Second, 1910 (1 of 4)In context
- Christianity
- Time
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
JFJames Feibleman
- Anti-Religion
For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.
Gerald Ford1913–2006Speech to the International Eucharistic Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as quoted in the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner (13 August 1976)
But suddenly, at the edge of her mind, Religion appeared, poor little talkative Christianity, and she knew that all its divine words from “Let there be Light” to “It is finished” only amounted to “boum.”
E. M. Forster1879–1970A Passage to India (1924), Part II: Caves, Chapter XIVIn context
- Christianity
- Faith
You can know a real Christian when you see him, by his buoyancy.
Harry Emerson Fosdick1878–1969Twelve Tests of Character (1923)
- Christianity
The gods conform scrupulously to the sentiments of their worshippers: they have reasons for so doing.
Anatole France1844–1924The White Stone (1905), Ch. III, p. 135
- Anti-Religion
How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, his precepts! O! ‘tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack
- Christianity
- Christmas
I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790
As to Jesus of Nazareth, my Opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the System of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is likely to see.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Letter to Ezra Stiles (9 March 1790)
- Christianity
- Morality
I think all the heretics I have known have been virtuous men.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Letter to Benjamin Vaughan (24 October 1788)
- Virtue
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund Freud1856–1939“New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis” (1933)
- Anti-Religion