Speech (7 November 1860).
1860s
News conference in Vancouver, B.C. as quoted in The Globe and Mail. (8 September 2006).
Founding Address (1876)
Context: The Hebrew prophets said of old, to serve Jehovah is to make your hearts pure and your hands clean from corruption, to help the suffering, to raise the oppressed. Jesus of Nazareth said that he came to comfort the weary and heavy laden. The Philosopher affirms that the true service of religion is the unselfish service of the common weal. There is no difference among them all. There is no difference in the law. But so long have they quarreled concerning the origin of law that the law itself has fallen more and more into abeyance. For indeed, as it is easier to say. "I do not believe," and have done with it, so also it is easier to say, "I believe," and thus to bribe one's way into heaven, as it were, than to fulfill nobly our human duties with all the daily struggle and sacrifice which they involve.
“I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.”
Source: The First Church of Christ Scientist and Miscellany, p. 270
“My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.”
Quoted in "Years of Minutes" - Page 331 - by Andy Rooney - 2004
2000s, 2004
“Closing your mind to religion is no different than the close-mindedness that
religions can cause.”
Source: Satan Burger
As quoted in The Life and Writings of Thomas Jefferson : Including All of His Important Utterances on Public Questions (1900) by Samuel E. Forman, p. 429
Posthumous publications
“Talk about it as much as you like,—one's breeding shows itself nowhere more than in his religion.”
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
Life in the Industry: A Musician's Diary
Source: Andrea Meza (2021) cited in: " In Israel, Miss Universe says pageant no place for politics https://www.arabnews.com/node/1970011/offbeat" in Arab News, 17 November 2021.
