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Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
Richard Dawkinsborn 1941River out of Eden (1995)
- Anti-Religion
- Science
No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
- Charity
- Christianity
The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
Alexander Pope1688–1744Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)
- Charity
- Christianity
His religion at best is an anxious wish, — like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855), Burns
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
Joseph Addison1672–1719The Spectator (1711–1714), No. 112 (9 July 1711)
- Work
The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.
Henry Ward Beecher1813–1887Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887)
- Christianity
I do not regard Jainism or Buddhism as separate from Hinduism. Hinduism believes in the oneness not of merely all human life but in the oneness of all that lives.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948Mahatma Gandhi. October 1927. The Collected Works, Volume 35, New Delhi, 1968, pp. 166-67. Quoted in Goel, S.R. History of Hindu-Christian Encounters (1996)
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
H. G. Wells1866–1946The Outline of History (1920), Ch. 28
- Christianity
The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be rung down at any moment: say, before you have finished reading this paragraph.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The World’s Last Night (1952)
- Christianity
Prisons are built with stones of law; brothels with bricks of religion.
William Blake1757–1827Proverbs of Hell, Line 21
- Laws
Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those they have slain.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)In context
Are there no Moravians in the Moon, that not a missionary has yet visited this poor pagan planet of ours, to civilize civilization and christianize Christendom?
Herman Melville1819–1891White-Jacket (1850), Ch. 64
- Christianity
It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accepts the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints.
William James1842–1910The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
- Happiness
All gods have good points, just as have all priests. Personally, I attach much importance to Hanuman, and am kind to his people⁠—the great gray apes of the hills. One never knows when one may want a friend.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936Life’s Handicap (1891)