Religion Quotes
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Spirituality is not a religion... It is a way of life.
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If the believers of the present-day religions would earnestly try to think and act in the spirit of the founders of these religions then no hostility on the basis of religion would exist among the followers of the different faiths. Even the conflicts and the realm of religion would be exposed as insignificant.
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion.
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Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory, that it speaks always the language of feeling.
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India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
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My social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. Let no one, however, say that I have borrowed by philosophy from the French Revolution. I have not. My philosophy has roots in religion and not in political science. I have derived them from the teachings of my Master, the Buddha.
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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
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My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
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What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?
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O God! if I worship Thee in fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; and if I worship Thee in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise; but if I worship Thee for Thine own sake, withhold not thine everlasting beauty.
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For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God.
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Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.
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No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
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People can be only divided into good or bad; their race, religion, nationality don't matter.
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Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.
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Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.
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The rules, religion to religion that man set forth, made me shy away from religion and have my own one on one with God and cut out the middleman.
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In Lebanon, there are completely different opinions and values in one country in terms of religion, modernity, tradition, East and West - which allows for a kind of intellectual development not available anywhere else.
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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
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First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
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Religion should be about your relationship with God, not what the church says you can and can't do.
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We would here state that there are now three things necessary to be done in order to save China from revolution. The first is to maintain the reigning Dynasty; the second is to conserve the Holy Religion; and the third is to protect the Chinese race.
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It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar.
