Religious Quotes
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Removing religion from the womb of culture has become the practiced virtue of the ACLU over the past several decades.
William Anthony Donohue
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All of that is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but we cannot all be friars, and God brings His children to heaven by many paths: chivalry is a religion, and there are sainted knights in Glory.’ Yes,’ responded Sancho, ‘but I’ve heard that there are more friars in heaven than knights errant.’ That is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘because the number of religious is greater than the number of knights.’ There are many who are errant,’ said Sancho. Many,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but few who deserve to be called knights.
Miguel de Cervantes
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The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.
Francis Spufford
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I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.
Michael Palin
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A City University of New York study done in 1991 revealed that nearly 90% of the American people identify themselves religiously as Christians or Jews, while only 7.5 percent claim no religion.
William Bennett
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I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community.
Robert Wilson
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People are religious about comics the way people are religious about the Bible.
Josh Trank
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The religious wars showed that the Christian faith was no longer Europe's unifying force. A new common ground was needed, and it was found in reason, which is something that is shared by all of mankind. This was one of the roots of the Enlightenment and its concept of universal human rights.
Walter Kasper
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I do have a lot of deep religious iconography. I have crosses all over my house, and there's something very attractive about seeing nuns walking down the street. It's not a sexual thing for me; I know it is for some guys.
Richard Lewis Springthorpe
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We should never intentionally offend, but if you follow Jesus, you will offend religious people.
Darrin Patrick
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The ACLU sues no matter what public property a religious symbol is placed on.
William Anthony Donohue
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Trees are right at the heart of all the necessary debates: ecological, social, economic, political, moral, religious.
Colin Tudge
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I grew up in a religious family, and we weren't allowed to listen to rock music.
Mike White
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I did not read the Bible today. I am not very good at being religious and don't really feel too bad about not being too good. I do wish that I loved God and His creatures more.
Rich Mullins
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Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.
Ernest Renan
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Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity, correctness. The greatest writer of all times. God's most astonishing creation.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
