Religious Quotes
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No, I'm not religious, I'm sorry to say. But I was once and shall be again. There is no time now to be religious." "No time. Does it need time to be religious?" "Oh, yes. To be religious you must have time and, even more, independence of time. You can't be religious in earnest and at the same time live in actual things and still take them seriously, time and money and the Odéon Bar and all that.
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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.
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My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.
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Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me.
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I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious.
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... religious experience, as we have studied it, cannot be cited as unequivocally supporting the infinitist belief. The only thingthat it unequivocally testifies to is that we can experience union with something larger than ourselves and in that union find our greatest peace.
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The whole dimension of religious belief requires transcendence, it requires going beyond what you can establish rationally.
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Today there are two Madonnas, our lady of Fatima over here and that woman from Michigan.
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Mythology and history are my passion. I grew up in a religious family and learnt about our scriptures and philosophies. It's the language I'm comfortable with.
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We're told that they were zealots fueled by religious fervour…religious fervour and if you live to be a thousand years old will that make any sense to you? Will that make any goddamn sense?
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I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.
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Found a shaman in a diaper with a poppy pot. When I asked if he was cold, he said just think hot.
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[Animals] appreciate others' affection, they also have the sort of ability to show their own affection. And then as soon as we're born, child, no religious faith.
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Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.
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Certainly I'm a Christian first and foremost. But I do believe in religious tolerance and finding the commonality between all of us. I think that's how we're all going to come together.
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Resolved, That we especially protest against this present attempt to force all the people to follow the religious dictates of a part of the people, as establishing a precedent for the entrance of a most dangerous complicity between Church and State, thereby subtly undermining the foundation of liberty, so carefully laid by the wisdom of our fathers.
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One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man.
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Zealous groups threaten to infringe civil liberties when they seek government support to impose their own religious views on nonadherents. This has taken many forms, including attempts to introduce organized prayer in public schools, to outlaw birth control and abortion, and to use public tax revenues to finance religious schools.
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I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.
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The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy.
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But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious.
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There's only one thing to do with God's offer of the gift of salvation: Say "thank you" and embrace it.
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On this lovely, lovely Hanukkah, drink your gin and tonica.
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It's not about superheroes. This is the method of universal storytelling that all people have... To me, they're the same as the Greek myths or the Roman myths or religious figures of every religion. These are common characters that we use to express stories about being a better person or what you would do when faced with various things.
