Religion Quotes
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The kingdom of god... or nothing!!!
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On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.
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Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Those who are seeking the true religion will never find it outside the Catholic Church alone, because, in every other religion, if they trace it up to the author, they will find some impostor whose imagination furnished a mass of sophisms and errors.
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Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.
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You who hate the Jews so, why did you adopt their religion?
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I hope I never get so old I get religious.
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First, we must liberate people from religion, as religion is understood and practiced today. Second, we must effect a paradigm shift from religiosity to shared spirituality.
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History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion.
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Islam is a peaceful religion.
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God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.
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Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.
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Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.
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Religion is a fascinating black hole to me.
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The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.
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There are a good many pious people who are as careful of their religion as of their best service of china, only using it on holy occasions, for fear it should get chipped or flawed in working-day wear.
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The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough. There is not enough difference between the people inside the church and those outside to be impressive. A church in which saints were as common as now they are rare would convict the world, if only by contrast. Sanctity cannot be ignored. Even a little bit is potent. So far from the gates of hell prevailing against it, it hammers on their triple steel.
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Religion, even the most primitive and superstitious, is inevitably a beginning of culture. It is not possible without some kind of symbolic expression ... and begets dramatic gesture, dance, and chant.
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Mysticism, according to its historical and psychological definitions, is the direct intuition or experience of God; and a mystic is a person who has, to a greater or less degree, such a direct experience -- one whose religion and life are centered, not merely on an accepted belief or practice, but on that which the person regards as first hand personal knowledge.
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No man can run up the natural line of Evolution without coming to Christianity at the top.
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When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.
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I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion, he resumed presently. They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to them. Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the thing. There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.
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If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.
