Religion Quotes
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It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.
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Religion is all bunk.
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In 303 CE, the Roman emperor Diocletian declared war on the Christian church and instigated the most massive persecution it ever endured. In 312 CE, the emperor Constantine himself converted to become a Christian. In 391 to 392 CE, the vehemently orthodox Christian Theodosius declared all pagan practices illegal and in effect made Christianity the state religion of Rome. With the growth of Christianity came moments of heightened intolerance. Sometimes this intolerance erupted in ugly acts of violence, suppression, and coercion. Christians were not, of course, the only intolerant people on the planet. They themselves had been the victims of violent coercion early in the century.
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Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.
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While the sun God will may your day, sing as a song in search of a voice that is silent, and the one God will make for your way.
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It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
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The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.
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I think that Sufism fits all over the world. The concept is not anything that fits standard Western ideas - it's always related to culture, to music, to religion. It is a dominant religion in Senegal.
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I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.
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The God of popular religion is not holy.
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I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate.
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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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A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than that of a person who is born in it.
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The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government.
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That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.
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They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in freedom's cause.
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Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world.
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To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.
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My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth.
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Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.
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Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion.
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Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
