Religious Quotes
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Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion.
Austin Phelps
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The U.S. should prohibit perpetrators and supporters of Islamist brutality from entering the country while embracing advocates for religious freedom. End of story.
Pete Hoekstra
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If God is about putting God ahead of myself then I've just quit being religious, because that's what got me into such deep trouble.
Barbara Brown Taylor
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The good Lord made this world and everything that's in it. The way I see it, baby, you got to love it to the limit.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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Do not allow your sorrow or your rage to become hostility toward people on the basis of their ethnicity or their religious views. That is unacceptable; it is out of bounds, and if you break the law, we will prosecute you for it.
John Ashcroft
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Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears.
Emil Cioran
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Religious faith, indeed, relates to that which is above us, but it must arise from that which is within us.
Josiah Royce
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Anyway, I try to be a good guy. I try to tell the truth, but I'm not religious.
William H. Macy
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Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause: And I was not without hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy of ⟨the present⟩ age would have put an effectual stop to contentions of this Kind.
George Washington
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Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Love is a consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to receive. The only demand of life is the privilege to love all.
Chinmayananda Saraswati
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Most policy makers embrace a religious-like belief that the market can and should solve every problem.
Eric Maskin
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While we welcome people of all faiths in America we cannot be so naïve as to expect all countries to do the same. But we cannot allow their cultural mores to snuff out our religious freedoms or the freedom of women to have equal rights.
Michael Huffington
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The Founders never intended to separate Christianity from government, only to keep a single denomination from running the nation.
David Barton
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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.
Claude Levi-Strauss
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We ignore the similarities between the religious extremism and ethno-nationalism at our peril.
Deeyah Khan
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Religious minorities (including Jews) will have to wear special insignia in Iraq.
Amir Taheri
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I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.
Jonathan Sacks
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We have our religious traditions coming from many thousands of years, and I think to myself, well, you know, if Moses had come down with tablets from the mountain that said, 'And guess what? There are protons and neutrons, and they are made out of quarks,' people wouldn't have understood what he said. So he didn't.
John C. Mather
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'Are you a religious man, Joe?'Flitch pulled a face. 'I leaves that sort of thing to women.'
Brian Aldiss
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My religious philosophy is kindness. Try to be kind. That's something worth achieving.
Pierce Brosnan
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The test of a man’s religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in the ordinary times, when there is nothing tremendous or exciting on. The worth of a man is revealed in his attitude to ordinary things when he is not before the footlights.
Oswald Chambers
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...it becomes clear that, given our diversity, no single religion satisfies all humanity. ... And since the majority does not practice religion, I am concerned to try to find a way to serve all humanity without appealing to religious faith.
Dalai Lama
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The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities.
Tom Allen