Religious Quotes
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The misfortunes which God is represented in the book of Job as allowing Satan to inflict on Job, merely to test his faith, are indications, if not of positive malevolence, at least of a suspicious and ruthless insecurity, which is characteristic more of a tyrant than of a wholly powerful and benevolent deity.
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If I may use such a word when I am speaking of religious subjects, it is by voice and words that men 'mesmerize' each other. Hence it is that the world is converted by the voice of the preacher.
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The radical Islamic terrorists and their intent to destroy any other religious structure than their radical, wrong-headed view of Islam is one of the great, if not the greatest, challenge we've had in 70 years in America.
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If you're not critical about your history, that can be a problem because there are religious leaders, politicians and all kinds of powerful people who can take advantage of a population that isn't really thinking.
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In modern America, Judeo-Christian beliefs are often held up to ridicule and disdain by the media.
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'…My name…is Mahalingam….is Sanskrit for ‘large or great or mighty generative organ’ - this, of course, having more a religious (through associations of religion and fertility) significance than an anatomical one. Though anatomically and…socially the name has not proved inept.
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I guess it's true what they say: if we could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.
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Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out.
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The wraith of Sigmund said. 'You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.'
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Among the qualities most needed among those who aspire to true leadership in the fostering of peace and goodwill among the nations and in overcoming racial and religious antagonism is the cooperative spirit and objective.
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Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much, as consigning them to eternal damnation.
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I am thus one of the very few examples, in this country, of one who has, not thrown off religious belief, but never had it.
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It's just better to promote love and fairness and equality than it is to promote something you think is based on your religious beliefs.
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I had a lot of very religious influences - Christian religious.
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I was raised Unitarian, and my mother said she took us to church so that we wouldn't get religious later in life.
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If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.
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I grew up in Nacogdoches, Texas... raised by my grandmother. We were very poor and had no indoor plumbing. My grandmother was a very religious woman, though, and she gave me a lot of faith and inner strength.
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Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.
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People crave encouragement, and sometimes the greatest encouragement is the writing of words that endure. Perhaps you can pen a note of affirmation and approval to someone today.
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I'm not a religious person at all.
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The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.
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If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.
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Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.
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Religious leaders could play a significant role in making explicit the connections between current concerns for the environment and age-old teachings about our dependence on the natural world, and the dangers of greed and excess
