Religion Quotes
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A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than that of a person who is born in it.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings. Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.
Jim Morrison The Doors
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Make sure that you let God's grace work in your souls by accepting whatever He gives you, and giving Him whatever He takes from you. True holiness consists in doing God's work with a smile.
Mother Teresa
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For my money, I'll bet on reason and humanistic kindness. Even if I am wrong I will have enjoyed my life, the existence of which is under little dispute.
Dan Barker
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By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Where there is fear there is no religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate.
Jimmy Buffett
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Religion is all bunk.
Thomas A. Edison
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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.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of souls who have not yet recognized that they belong together.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.
William Robertson Smith
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No man can run up the natural line of Evolution without coming to Christianity at the top.
William Henry Drummond
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I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.
Salman Rushdie
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I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.
Ian Mcewan
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It's not a religion, there's a real living God that wants to know you today and it's through Jesus Christ his son you can.
Jen Ledger Skillet
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You who hate the Jews so, why did you adopt their religion?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Religion forbids us from assuming a God-like character. This is especially true in politics and government, where limiting the power of the state, division of powers, and the doctrine of checks and balances are established in order to prevent accumulation of power that might lead to such Godly claims.
Abdolkarim Soroush
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For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I hope I never get so old I get religious.
Ingmar Bergman
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Don't speak to me about your religion; first show it to me in how you treat other people. Don't tell me how much you love your God; show me in how much you love all God's children. Don't preach to me your passion for your faith; teach me through your compassion for your neighbors. In the end, I'm not as interested in what you have to tell or sell as I am in how you choose to live and give.
Cory Booker
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The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.
Abraham Lincoln
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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.
Amir Khan
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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.
Kerry King Slayer
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
Stendhal