Russell M. Nelson (Russell Marion Nelson Sr.) Quotes
Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations.
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Together with international unity and resolve we can meet the challenge of this global scourge and work to bring about an international law of zero tolerance for terrorism.
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I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.
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I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.
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Religious celebrations, and the good will, high spirits and generosity that mark them, are wonderful occasions for understanding the potential of 'everyday multiculturalism', and how people from diverse faiths can connect and show they care, rather than go down parallel, sometimes hostile, roads.
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Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.
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I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.
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Even before 9/11 I was gripped by a sense of dread: our lack of criticism about what we were doing in the Middle East - the slagging off of a whole religious tradition.
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Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.
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Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.
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'Above all there is our fixed joint determination to build a strong and united Fiji, rich in diversity and pampered with tolerance, goodwill and understanding.' (Attributed to Mara by his successor as President, Ratu Josefa Iloilo, 10 October 2005).
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I don't consider myself a 'religious' person at all. I am, however, a person of enormous faith.
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Objections to religious mysticism lose their force if they can equally be turned against natural mysticism.
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No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
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Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same, call them what you like. They survive by pointing the finger of blame at each other.
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All man's failures are either because of the religious denial of man's biological needs or the materialistic denial of man's spiritual desires.
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I'm not a religious person.
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I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American.
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Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil … a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons … never to truth.
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Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period.
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I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'
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We can't pick and choose when to adhere to the Constitution and when to cast it aside.
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I grew up watching a lot of stuff, like 'Teen Titans.'
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Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations.
