There has been only one Christian. They caught and curcified him-early. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Irrevence is another person's disrespect to your god; there isn't any word that tells what your disrespect to his god is. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion -… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious - unless he purposely shut… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
...and last but not least, reflecting my feelings on proofreading...excuse any pages on my websites that have misspelled words or grammatical errors...I'm… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We have to keep our God placated with prayer, and even then we are never sure of him-how much higher and finer… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A religion that comes of thought, and study, and deliberate conviction, sticks best. The revivalized convert who is scared in the direction… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Our Congresses consist of Christians. In their private life they are true to every obligation of honor; yet in every session they… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That is a simple rule, and easy to remember. When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If Christ were here now, there is one thing he would not be a Christian. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Man is a marvelous curiosity … he thinks he is the Creator’s pet … he even believes the Creator loves him; has… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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