W. Somerset Maugham Quotes About Religion
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A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.
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Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.
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In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is a being who is personal, supreme and good, and whose existence is as certain as that two and two make four.
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Marco Polo tells the tale of The Old Man in the Mountains and how he recruits new members to his Band of Assassins by means of drugs, beautiful women, lush gardens, and religious promises. The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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