Religious Quotes
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Wondering if God loves us when we're cheating? Oh, but why he lets us feel things, if it's wrong.
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We acquire both the language and religious concepts from our immediate culture – at the same time. A child cannot discriminate between useful survival information and the emotional and psychological manipulations of religion. Once infected, these ideas are deeply embedded and almost impossible to change.
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Always have the fear of God in your heart, and remember that God is always with you, everywhere, whether you are walking or sitting.
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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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What about self-awareness, the mysterious ability of the brain to reflect upon itself? Self-awareness can be tampered with by brainwashing, psychoactive drugs, electrical stimulation, political or religious propaganda, even advertising. A lifetime in front of a TV set may be the equivalent of a self transplant.
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In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.
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When therefore the first spark of a desire after God arises in thy soul, cherish it with all thy care, give all thy heart into it; it is nothing less than a touch of the divine loadstone, that is to draw thee out of the vanity of time, into the riches of eternity.
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To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.
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No man succeeds without faith. Whether you call it religious faith or label it something else. I don't feel anything worthwhile is accomplished without it. When you believe there is a Supreme Being guiding the destiny of this universe and that within each of us there is a little part of that Being, then you will have faith in yourself, in your country, in that Supreme Being, and in humanity itself.
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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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I'm trying to champion the naturalist's worldview and show it's not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to be.
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The true and correct solution to eradicating discrimination is by establishing religious Sepharadi educational institutions. This is one of the reasons Shas was founded.
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I would not be standing here today if my skin were white or my religion were Presbyterian. I am here today only because my skin is yellow and my religion is Unification Church. The ugliest things in this beautiful country of America are religious bigotry and racism.
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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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In today's schools, 'religious studies' has almost entirely replaced theology.
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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 ACLU sees the separation of church and state as so absolute that not a single religious word must be allowed to pass a schoolhouse door.
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The idea we would create some kind of religious test for entry into the country is absolutely wrong.
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The Church must take right ground in regard to politics... Politics are a part of a religion in such a country as this, and Christians must do their duty to the country as part of their duty to God... God will bless or curse this nation, according to the course Christians take in politics.
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The word spiritual, not the word religious, is the key.
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The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity.
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We don't really worry about being called a religious ensemble.
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Warm-heartedne ss and concern for others’ well-being are a condition for happiness, whether you are religious or not.
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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.
