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Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if I go to… — Mark Twain
Americans practice different faiths in churches, synagogues, mosques and temples. And many good people practice no faith at all. — George W. Bush
I am tolerant of all creeds. Yet if any sect suffered itself to be used for political objects I would meet it by political opposition.… — Millard Fillmore
In 1850, I believe, the church property in the United States, which paid no tax, amounted to $87 million. In 1900, without a check, it… — Ulysses S. Grant
I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution. By my office… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous. — Robert Green Ingersoll
The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied… — A A Milne
The hope for life after death must be separated forever from the behavior control mentality of reward and punishment. The Church must abandon, therefore, its… — John Shelby Spong
I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an Atheist. We have separation… — John F. Kerry
We in the United States, above all, must remember that lesson, for we were founded as a nation of openness to people of all beliefs.… — Ronald Reagan
We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the many Protestant denominations,… — Harry S. Truman
But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who… — Thomas Jefferson
The church lives because it witholds the results of the historical Jesus-research from you — Hans Conzelmann
Let me say that I don't see any conflict between science and religion. I go to church as many other scientists do. I share with… — Martin Rees
I don't have an issue with what you do in the church but I'm going to be up in your face if you're going to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
I listen to money singing, it's like looking down from long French windows at a provincial town. The slums, the canal, the churches ornate and… — Philip Larkin
A Christian anarchist has no business belonging to such a reactionary organization [the Catholic Church]. I do not believe in original sin, indulgences, the infallibility… — Ammon Hennacy
Every soul that is born into flesh is soiled by the filth of wickedness and sin. . . . In the Church, baptism is given… — Origen
The Church received from the apostles the tradition of giving baptism even to infants. The apostles, to whom were committed the secrets of the divine… — Origen
Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding' to the unknowable, transcending reason,… — Gerhard Richter
We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom. But we cannot escape the necessity of love and compassion. This, then, is my true… — Dalai Lama
Selfishness and fear are at the root of (pro-abortion) legislation...We in the Church have a great struggle to defend life...life is a gift not a… — Pope Benedict XVI
I sympathize the first, the direct and single-minded attack [Red Revolution]. I believe it to have been necessary and inevitable in Russia. It may someday… — Stuart Chase
My daughter, Grace, was not killed by a gun. She died suddenly at age 5 from a virulent form of strep. As I stood stunned… — Ann Hood
How many people also in our time are in search of God, in search of Jesus and of his Church, in search of divine mercy,… — Pope Benedict XVI

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