Religion Quotes
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Just as the chicken pox virus continues to live quietly in the body after the disease is gone, the god virus may live quietly in the host until something evokes it.
Darrel Ray
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No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.
Noah Webster
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I could be religious, if they sang the hymns to disco.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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For me, philanthropic return on investment is about making the biggest impact possible on fellow human beings, regardless of country, race or religion.
Bobby Sager
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I use things that people want to hide in their heads. War, religion, sex; things we all think about, but don’t bring to the forefront. But I do and I force them to watch it.
Alexander McQueen
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Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.
Blaise Pascal
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Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, Needs only to be seen to be admired.
William Cowper
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I thank the Lord for the night time.
Neil Diamond
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Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.
George Bernard Shaw
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The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.
Francis Bacon
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The religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for therishis and saints.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Hell is paved with good samaritans.
William Franklin Beedle Jr.
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Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
Emile Zola
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People now have their own particular religion - a denomination of one. I suppose it's a part of the new age phenomenon, but it's much wider than that. On the whole, I would say that is healthy. But I think it was always there, secretly.
Ninian Smart
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Thus far women have been the mere echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the customs of social life are all of masculine origin. The true woman is as yet a dream of the future. A just government, a humane religion, a pure social life await her coming.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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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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The other part of the true religion is our duty to man. We must love our neighbour as our selves, we must be charitable to all men for charity is the greatest of graces, greater then even faith or hope & covers a multitude of sins. We must be righteous & do to all men as we would they should do to us.
Isaac Newton
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Nothing can be more contrary to nature, to reason, to religion, than cruelty; hence as inhuman man is generally considered as a monster; such monsters, however, have existed; and the heart almost bleeds at the recital of the cruel acts such have been guilty of; it teaches us, however, what human nature is when left to itself; not only treacherous, but desperately wicked.
Charles Buck
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What the world craves today is a more spiritual and less formal religion. To the man or woman facing death, great conflict, the big problems of human life, the forms of religion are of minor concern, while the spirit of religion is a desperately needed source of inspiration, comfort and strength.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
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This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. It is widespread. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths.
Jimmy Carter
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You get religion as your hair turns grey.
Jimmy Buffett
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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.
Albert Einstein
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My religion is a matter solely between my Maker and myself.
Mahatma Gandhi
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In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.
William Robertson Smith