Religion Quotes
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Religion helps to make social life more harmonious; its most important task is to remind us, in the language of pictures and parables, of the wider framework within which our life is set.
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It was this same Jesus, the Christ who, among many other remarkable things, said and repeated something which, proceeding from any other being would have condemned him at once as either a bloated egotist or a dangerously unbalanced person...when He said He himself would rise again from the dead, the third day after He was crucified, He said something that only a fool would dare say, if he expected longer the devotion of any disciples-unless He was sure He was going to rise. No founder of any world religion known to men ever dared say a thing like that!
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Goodwill toward all beings is the true religion; cherish in your hearts boundless goodwill to all that lives.
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I don't really have a life philosophy; my thing is just rebelling against pretty much organized religion. That is my main thing, because personally I think it's a crutch for people that are too weak to get through life on their own. I'm the kind of guy that says if I don't see it, then it doesn't work. And nobody can show me God.
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Religion is a fascinating black hole to me.
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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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But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to satisfy are not immutable; they can be weakened and exterminated. Consider, for example, that Christian distress of mind that comes from sighing over ones inner depravity and care for ones salvation - all concepts originating in nothing but errors of reason and deserving, not satisfaction, but obliteration.
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For I bring not a religion... but a Person, who loves people, who died for them on the cross. For Jesus died for the sins of the whole world and He will not that any one should perish. He understands every single individual.
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Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.
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Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Religion was very influential because when it got really bad, and you don't know who to turn to, but I turned to God and was praying and meditating, that really helped.
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It is not the legitimate province of the Legislature to determine which religion is true, or what false. Our government is a civil, and not a religious institution.
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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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Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.
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Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.
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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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I hope I never get so old I get religious.
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For science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary. Religion, on the other hand, deals only with evaluations of human thought and action: it cannot justifiably speak of facts and relationships between facts.
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The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.
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People don't talk about religion a lot in Hollywood because it's not an incredibly safe place to do it.
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For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.
