A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive.
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.
A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
Christianity is a very historical religion - it makes specific claims that are open to testing.
There's no religious test under the constitution. That's what it says. Period.
There's no religious test in our country, and there shouldn't be. We're an open, competitive society.
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.