Religion Quotes
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Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.
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Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .
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The Lord Buddha was once asked by a disciple to sum up the whole of His teaching in one verse. He replied: Cease to do evil; Learn to do well; Cleanse your own heart; This is the religion of the Buddha.
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Mine is not a religion of the prison-house. It has room for the least among God's creation.
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Where there is fear there is no religion.
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That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.
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Religion is everywhere. It is in the mind, in the heart, in the love you put into what you do.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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I’m not religious but I’m definitely very spiritual person. I’ve always said that religion is for people who are scared of ending up in hell. Spirituality is for those who’ve already been there.
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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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There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.
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It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows.
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A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.
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What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?
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Foolish talking and jesting are not the ways in which Christian cheerfulness should express itself, but rather "giving of thanks" (Eph. 5:4). Religion is the source of joy and gladness, but its joy is expressed in a religious way, in thanksgiving and praise.
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I saw Bad Religion in Kansas City and it was amazing. Tightest band I've ever seen live.
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Caress the detail, the divine detail.
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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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Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.
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After fulfilling its destructive urge towards everything that is noble and good on earth, it naive Religion sketches, in its opium intoxication, a picture of the future situation, which differs drastically from the order of this world, since everything changes and is renewed.
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Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.
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We cannot disguise hostility towards any religion behind the pretence of liberalism.
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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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In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I believe this is a very good thing.
