“There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.”
“There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.”
“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last”
“In the first is the last, in thy will is my power to believe”
“It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late”
“When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place”
“The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the ravings of insanity, superstition gone to see! I want no part of such a God”
“The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action”