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"All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world."	John Hay
"There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed-the four-poster-I'll be needing that to die in."	Helen Hayes
"One man's religion is another man's belly laugh."	Robert Anson Heinlein
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."	Patrick Henry
"Men are doubtful and skeptical about the Church; they suspect and dislike the clergy: they are impatient of theological systems; but for Jesus Christ, as he stand out to view in the sacred pages, as they dimly realize him in their own best selves, as they catch faint traces of him in the lives of his saints, they have no other sentiments than those of respect and affection."	Herbert Hensley Henson
"A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair."	Abraham Joshua Heschel
"Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy."	Abraham Joshua Heschel
"Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color."	Don Hirschberg
"Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion."	Thomas Hobbes
"To St. Paul, stripes, stones, shipwrecks, and thorns in the flesh were religious experiences; to Judas Iscariot, the daily companionship of Jesus of Nazareth was not."	Leonard Hodgson
"Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves."	Eric Hoffer
"When salvation is viewed as man's program, it is left up to man as to whether he will let God do this or that, but when it is viewed as God's program, there is a confidence and a certainty that no one whom God regenerates will be a carnal Christian."	Michael Horton
"The artist needs no religion beyond his work."	Elbert Hubbard
"Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one."	Elbert Hubbard
"God is the God of truth; and every spiritual quality must live with that holy attribute."	Edwin Holt Hughes
"You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but now, as yet, intelligent enough."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart."	Washington Irving
"The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt."	Jesse Louis Jackson
"Religion is the monumental chapter in the history of human egotism."	William James
"Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life."	William James
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