Religion Quotes
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The very scary thing about religion, to me, is that people actually believe God is who they think He is.
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Grow up. Grow up. Time to grow up. You’re here now. We’re working on physics here, not religion. Drop the mysticism and grow up.
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Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.
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It is this subtle dimension of understanding that marks the southwestern Indian peoples from other religions and separates tribal peoples from the world's religions. Somewhere in the planetary history religious expression changed from participation in the sound, color and rhythm of nature to the abstractions of man outside this context pleading for temporary respite and hoping in the next life to return to the Garden.
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Full eleven centuries have passed by since then. Islam has now as great a claim on the soil of India as Hinduism. If Hinduism has been the religion of the people here for several thousands of years Islam also has been their religion for a thousand years. Just as a Hindu can say with pride that he is an Indian and follows Hinduism, so also we can say with equal pride that we are Indians and follow Islam. I shall enlarge this orbit still further. The Indian Christian is equally entitled to say with pride that he is an Indian and is following a religion of India, namely Christianity."
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All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. It is only the savage, whether of the African bush or the American gospel tent, who pretends to know the will and intent of God exactly and completely.
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Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.
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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.
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Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.
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No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
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Proof' is the hallmark of religion.
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It is not the function of religion to answer all the questions about God's moral government of the universe, but to give us courage through faith to go on in the face of questions to which we find no answer in our present status.
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Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
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Religions have approved themselves; they have ministered to sundry vital needs which they found reigning. When they violated other needs too strongly, or when other faiths came which served the same needs better, the first religions were supplanted.
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I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate.
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If God could make angels, why did he bother with men?
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The state of matrimony is the chief in the world after religion; but people shun it because of its inconveniences, like one who, running out of the rain, falls into the river.
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Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.
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Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
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There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich.
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Science and religion are not antagonists. On the contrary, they are sisters. While science tries to learn more about the creation, religion tries to better understand the Creator. While through science man tries to harness the forces of nature around him, through religion he tries to harness the force of nature within him.
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The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.
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When you get to mixing sex and religion, it will make anybody crazy.
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Where there is fear there is no religion.
