Religion Quotes
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.
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Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuine religious experience is anything but that. True religion is by nature disruptive of what has been, giving birth to the eternally new.
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In Russia religion is the opium of the people; in China opium is the religion of the people.
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There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.
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The Hindu nationalists see a religion near perfection save for the tampering of Muslims and Christians. So they fall upon these groups, rather than try to reform their own practices by drawing on India's sophisticated philosophical traditions.
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Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.
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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
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There is no [...] higher than the truth.
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A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
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What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.
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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
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You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.
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I am a Muslim. I am born to Muslim parents. I have a Muslim son. I have been imprisoned and witnessed torture for my previous understanding of my religion.
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I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families.
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The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
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Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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Religion is simply an ideal. It is an ideal force that tends to free the human being from material bonds. I do not believe that matter and energy are interchangeable, any more than are the body and soul. There is just so much matter in the universe and it cannot be destroyed. As I see life on this planet, there is no individuality. It may sound ridiculous to say so, but I believe each person is but a wave passing through space, ever-changing from minute to minute as it travels along, finally, some day, just becoming dissolved.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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Muslims are not bloodthirsty people. Islam is a religion of peace that forbids the killing of the innocent. Islam also accepts the Prophets, whether those prophets are Mohammed, God's peace and blessing be upon Him, or Moses or the other prophets of the Books.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.
