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It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
Helen Keller on religion

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
Francis of Assisi on religion

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard on religion

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
Joseph Campbell on religion

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Thomas Paine on religion

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei on religion

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Henry David Thoreau on religion

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
George Bernard Shaw on religion

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
Khalil Gibran on religion

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
Francis of Assisi on religion

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
Friedrich Nietzsche on religion

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
Frederick Douglass on religion

We are punished by our sins, not for them.
Elbert Hubbard on religion

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Swami Vivekananda on religion

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
Gilbert K. Chesterton on religion

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you search, and you will find knock, and the door will be opened for you.
Jesus Christ on religion

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Jesus Christ on religion

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
Napoleon Bonaparte on religion

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Pope John Paul II on religion

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Henry Ward Beecher on religion