Abigail McCarthy Quotes
It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
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I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.
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It was once religion which threatened us with a last judgment at the end of days. It is now our tortured planet which predicts the arrival of such a day without any heavenly intervention.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.
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No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
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I'm a Christian, but I don't believe in religion or anything like that.
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I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.
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It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
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I hope I never get so old I get religious.
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The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
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Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.
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Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
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The simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains.
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Do you believe in rock 'n roll? Can music save your mortal soul?
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Today there are two Madonnas, our lady of Fatima over here and that woman from Michigan.
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The Shambhala teachings are founded on the premise that there is basic human wisdom that can help to solve the world's problems. This wisdom does not belong to any one culture or religion, nor does it come only from the West or the East. Rather it is a tradition of human warrior-ship that has existed in many cultures at many times throughout history.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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I dated someone in the '90s who was really into Metallica, and I remember thinking at the time, 'That just sounds so heavy and hard.' But they have great ballads! Great ballads.
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When you look at the number of stupid people who have succeeded in business, you clearly don't have to be very bright. Business is all about getting your sales up and your costs down, the bit in the middle is profit.
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Even though 'Vicky Donor' was a huge success, I have had one or two films which have not done well, but that's all right.
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What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.
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It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former.
