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Keep the church and the state forever separate.
Ulysses S. Grant1822–1885Speech to the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, Des Moines, Iowa (1875)
- Government
Religion is the great balm of existence because it takes us outside ourselves, connects us to something larger.
Robert Greeneborn 1959The Art of Seduction (2001)
I’d like to imagine I won’t end up in hell, but I think I’ve done too much acid and listened to too much death metal to sit on a cloud next to God with angels floating above my head.
Dave Grohlborn 1969Maxim Magazine (January 2008)
- Comedy
This age above all ages is a period in history when it should be our prime duty to preach the Gospel of Grace to all our fellow men and women.
Haile Selassie1892–1975Address to the World Congress on Evangelism, Berlin (28 October 1966)
- Christianity
We wish to recall here the spirit of tolerance shown by Our Lord Jesus Christ when He gave forgiveness to all including those that crucified Him.
Haile Selassie1892–1975Address to the World Congress on Evangelism, Berlin (28 October 1966)
- Christianity
- Forgiveness
Norwegians believe in God, Allah, the Universe and nothing.
Harald V1937–2026Garden party in the Palace Park: welcoming speech (September 1, 2016)
How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.
Yuval Noah Harariborn 1976Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011), Chapter 6: “Building Pyramids”
- Democracy
Jesus Christ⁠—who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens⁠—can now be eaten in the form of a cracker.
Sam Harrisborn 1967The End of Faith (2004)
- Anti-Religion
- Christianity
Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.
Sam Harrisborn 1967The End of Faith (2004)
- Anti-Religion
Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings.
Sam Harrisborn 1967The End of Faith (2004)
- Anti-Religion
- Theology
The crazier you get as a Jain, the less we have to worry about you. Jain extremists are paralysed by their pacifism.
Sam Harrisborn 1967Sam Harris, Lecture at the First Congregational Church of Berkeley (November 10, 2010)
Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.
Sam Harrisborn 1967Letter to a Christian Nation (2006), p. 51
- Anti-Religion
- Atheism
All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn’t matter what you call Him just as long as you call.
George Harrison1943–2001Introduction to Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead (1970) by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
- God
Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without, you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any; standing within, every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendors.
Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864The Marble Faun (1860), Chapter XXXIII: Pictured Windows
- Christianity
- Faith
The objects of philosophy, it is true, are upon the whole the same as those of religion. In both the object is Truth, in that supreme sense in which God and God only is the Truth.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel1770–1831Logic, Chapter 1
- Philosophy