Religion Quotes
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Do you believe in rock 'n roll? Can music save your mortal soul?
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Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that religion is not contrary to reason, but worthy of reverence and respect. Next make it attractive, make good men wish it were true and then show that it is.
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I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare.
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I, personally, am unable to accept any revealed religion, Christian or not.
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The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
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But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.
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I think that sex, drugs, art and religion very much overlap with one another and sometimes one becomes another.
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I've been reading Nikita Khrushchev Remembers. I know he's a bit of a lad himself - but he seemed to think that making a religion out of an individual was bad; that doesn't seem to be part of the basic Communist idea. Still people are people, that's the difficulty.
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It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.
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Education without religion is in danger of substituting wild theories for the simple commonsense rules of Christianity.
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I'm getting old, don't wear underwear, and I don't go to church.
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I'm a priest, not a priestess. Priestess implies mumbo jumbo and all sorts of pagan goings-on. Those who oppose us would love to call us priestesses. They can call us all the names in the world -- it's better than being invisible.
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A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets.
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Never confuse the faith with the supposedly faithful.
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The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is why I have not put in, or have cut out, practically all references to anything like 'religion', to cults or practices, in the imaginary world. For the religious element is absorbed into the story and the symbolism.
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Independent of its connection with human destiny hereafter, the fate of republican government is indissolubly bound up with the fate of the Christian religion, and a people who reject its holy faith will find themselves the slaves of their own evil passions and of arbitrary power.
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Religion is like music, one must have an ear for it. Some people have none at all.
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My religion is a matter solely between my Maker and myself.
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Hinduism is not a codified religion.
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Hell is paved with good samaritans.
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There are grave difficulties on every hand, and more are looming ahead. Therefore, we must go forward.
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Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.
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If religion commands universal charity, to love our neighbors as ourselves, to forgive and pray for all our enemies without any reserve; it is because all degrees of love are degrees of happiness, that strengthen and support the Divine life of the soul, and are as necessary to its health and happiness, as proper food is necessary to the health and happiness of the body.
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I think religion and science operate in different regimes. Religion is a belief system that tries to give meaning and comprehension to peoples' lives. Science is more about the mechanics of the universe around us and the way in which it works. And I don't think those things have to be mutually exclusive.
