Religious Quotes
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Genesis fans are a religious group!
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I was raised really religious, and it's a big part of my life. No matter what I go through, my faith will always be there.
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Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point.
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The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up with religious suggestion.
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I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.
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Terrorism and religious extremism are huge challenges. They go hand in glove.
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Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.
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Mankind has tried the other two roads to peace - the road of political jealousy and the road of religious bigotry - and found them both equally misleading. Perhaps it will now try the third, the road of scientific truth, the only road on which the passenger is not deceived. Science does not, ostrich-like, bury its head amidst perils and difficulties. It tries to see everything exactly as everything is.
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Counter-knowledge covers the propagation of false legends and conspiracy theories often used for political purposes or fundamentalist religious propaganda.
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Those Islamists and their apologists who argue for 'religious toleration' are arrogantly dishonest.
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No circumstance, person, or difficulty can stop the plans and the promises of God.
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Religious faith, indeed, relates to that which is above us, but it must arise from that which is within us.
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I'm a big fan of gospel music, and you cannot be a fan of rock and roll, you cannot be a fan of country western music, and you can't really be a fan of jazz without listening to a lot of music that's religious.
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I think there are more religious overtones in music because these artists want to be connected to greatness. What is greater or higher than God himself?
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The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.
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The image a society evolves of the relationship between the living and the dead is, in the final analysis, an attempt, on the level of religious thought, to conceal, embellish or justify the actual relationships which prevail among the living.
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I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.
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Richard John Neuhaus, in his well-known book The Naked Public Square, tells us that in America, the public square has become openly hostile to religion.
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All my life I have made it a rule never to permit a religious man or woman take for granted that his or her religious beliefs deserved more consideration than non-religious beliefs or anti-religious ones. I never agree with that foolish statement that I ought to respect the views of others when I believe them to be wrong.
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What you've got here is really a case of journalists making fun of people who believe in God and the devil.
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Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by sleeping alone, do I reach the happiness of freedom, to which no worldlings attain. If you have not put an end to compulsions, nurse your faith.
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Seattle's not a particularly Jewish city, and I'm not in any way religious. Since I've been here, I've been a fairly productive, even obsessively productive, writer.
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I think my books give people a language to have a conversation about God that's not religious. There isn't enough new literature that brings the conversation of God into a modern context. I love the Bible, but in the West we've analyzed it until it fits into a structure of control. We need more new stories. We need different ways of looking at things, and I think it's coming.
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Our fleshly nature tempts us to put ourselves above others or seek a position or place for ourselves instead of allowing others to have it.
