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"To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely."	Jorge Luis Borges
"The more man becomes irradiated with the Divinity of Christ, the more, not the less, truly he is man."	Phillips Brooks
"Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given--when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes."	Joan Winmill Brown
"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."	Sir Richard Francis Burton
"It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it."	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal."	Deepak K. Chopra
"Cruel persecution and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essense of religion, namely, its absolute claims."	Morris Raphael Cohen
"He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all."	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity."	Charles Caleb Colton
"Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but--live for it."	Charles Caleb Colton
"Said Waldershare, 'Sensible men are all of the same religion.' 'And pray what is that?' ... 'Sensible men never tell.'"	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
"There is no leveler like Christianity, but it levels by lifting all who receive it to the lofty table-land of a true character and of undying hope both for this world and the next."	Johathan Edwards
"The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined."	George Eliot
"In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters."	Deciderius Erasmus
"A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes."	James Kern Feibleman
"Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?"	Jules Feiffer
"Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp."	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"The truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion."	Kahlil Gibran
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