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"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."	John Quincy Adams
"The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart."	Richard Adams
"Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty."	Samuel Adams
"One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success."	Joseph Addison
"Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit."	Felix Adler
"Christ's first coming was to fulfill a mission, a purpose. He came to suffer, die, and be raised again. These happened and yielded results effective for the present time and into eternity."	Roger Anderson
"The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion."	Matthew Arnold
"Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect."	Oren Arnold
"Don't expect too much of Christmas Day. You can't crowd into it any arrears of unselfishness and kindliness that may have accrued during the past twelve months."	Oren Arnold
"My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make."	Thomas Arnold
"What a terrible time this is to be a Christian. The churches have failed and betrayed us, and the ministry preaches hate and murder. If there is a sane and reasoning voice in the Christian church today it is sadly silent."	Francois Arouet
"The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell."	Saint Augustine
"Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all."	Saint Augustine
"The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way imply that there is such a thing as religious knowledge...Unless he can formulate this 'knowledge' in propositions that are empirically verifiable, we may be sure that he is deceiving himself."	Alfred Jules Ayer
"Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world-the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism."	Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
"Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen. ... Their faith is their passport."	Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth man's minds about to religion."	Sir Francis Bacon
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order."	Sir Francis Bacon
"It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God."	Albert Coombs Barnes
"One's religion is whatever one is most interested in."	Sir James Matthew Barrie
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