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Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you read more
Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"
 The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience 
to the will of the Sovereign of read more 
 The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience 
to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His 
declarations, and in imitation of His perfections. 
 Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the 
mother.
 [Lat., Religio peperit divitias et filia devoravit matrem.]  
 Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the 
mother.
 [Lat., Religio peperit divitias et filia devoravit matrem.] 
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
 As if Religion were intended
 For nothing else but to be mended.  
 As if Religion were intended
 For nothing else but to be mended. 
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he read more
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means
 Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye
 Forever doth accompany mankind,
  Hath look'd on no religion read more 
 Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye
 Forever doth accompany mankind,
  Hath look'd on no religion scornfully
   That men did ever find. 
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.
If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.