thomas jefferson quotes on religion

I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture. ~Susan Strasberg



In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt



I feel something like a powerful oppression, like an immense fatigue after marching and marching across fever-laden jungles, or by the shores of deadly lakes... and I am flooded by discouragement, so that it seems I shall never be able to escape from myself again. ~"The Garden," Chapter 9



Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis



When the moon, after covering herself with darkness as in sorrow, at last throws off the garments of her widowhood, she does not at once expose herself impudently to the public gaze; but for a time remains veiled in a transparent cloud, till she gradually acquires courage to endure the looks and admiration of beholders. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Sudden acquaintance brings repentance. ~Thomas Fuller



First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef. ~Martin H. Fischer



A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. ~Francis Bacon, Essays: Of Atheism, 1625



Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, "Let no more riches enter!" ~Aeschylus



There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress. ~Joseph Addison



I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. ~George Carlin



The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. ~Richard Burton



There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. ~Colette



Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. ~George Smith Patton



If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being? ~Aleksander Solzhenitsyn



That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. ~Adlai Stevenson



We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. ~Gloria Steinem



One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This instinct as to the enduring value of the past is, one might say, the very basis of civilization. ~John Jay Chapman, Memories and Milestones



Men like a woman with a daring tongue. That's a double-entendre, which reminds me they also like a m�nage � trois. ~Carrie Latet



The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course. ~Billy Graham