Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
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Much to the chagrin of the staunchly secular among us, religion shows no sign of going away. Predictions of the demise of religion, faith, tradition - and even God - have consistently been proven wrong.
Hamza Yusuf -
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.
Babasaheb -
Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.
Pat Robertson -
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
Babasaheb -
Every religion there's something foul going on.
Ja Rule -
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.
D. H. Lawrence
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Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.
Viktor E. Frankl -
No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion.
Sam Harris -
You're always going to have extremists in every religion.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.
Patrick Henry -
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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I believe in God and not religion, because I believe religion is the double cross. Because I've been double crossed by three religions, so I think I can safely say that religion - there is maybe something wrong with religion. Every temple that's put up may not be a holy one, so watch out.
Ja Rule -
Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.
Eckhart Tolle -
Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.
Samuel Butler -
It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
Calvin Coolidge -
What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?
Abu Bakar Bashir -
I hold that religion and faith are two different things.
Pat Buckley
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God is a feeling experience and not a believing experience. If your religion is a believing experience ... then that's not truly God.
Oprah Winfrey -
As the twentieth century began, science equaled a materialistic worldview. As the twenty-first century began, the worldview of science, at least of physics and astronomy, may have traded place with that of religion. Consider Einstein's famous equation E = mc2. Nothing of matter dies but continues on in another form, elsewhere. The church divines and theologians for two thousand years have devised arguments and "proofs" of immortality but nothing equal to this.
Huston Smith -
My mom, she's a great cook. You know, pirogue, borscht. I love borscht, and I love Pilemeni, meat dumplings.
Irina Shayk -
People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.
Ralph Allen -
Morality is but the vestibule of religion.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin