Religion Quotes
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Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
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My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer.
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Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.
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I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.
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When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.
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To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding ourselves with euphemisms. We're talking about Islam being a religion of peace that's been hijacked by extremists. If ever there were a religion that's not a religion of peace, it is Islam.
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It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.
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Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
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If someone doesn't have a reason to not like you in America, they talk politics or religion. Then they get to hate you and we get to be enemies.
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Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.
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I hold that religion and faith are two different things.
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Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.
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I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religion for me. It's the quickest way for me to become still.
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My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any religion. Nor of any holy book or any priest. I have certainly not replaced their god. They are all a part of what I call my traveling circus.
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If organized religion has become less relevant, it's not because churches have held fast to their creedal beliefs - it's because they've held fast to their conventional structures, programs, roles and routines.
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I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.
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There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.
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Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.
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One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion. Unless the concept of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it can hardly hope to succeed.
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Anti-frackers are disingenuous. They bow to the religion of environmentalism.
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Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.
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My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
