Religion Quotes
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I mean, I went to a Catholic boys school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.
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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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The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic.
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You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality.
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The only time anyone's admitted they were a Christian before was when they were busy telling me why they're better than me.
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The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.
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Hell is paved with good samaritans.
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The time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political life indispensable for full service.
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Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.
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But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.
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Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.
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Show me a religion that doesn't care about compassion. Show me a religion that doesn't care about stewardship of the environment. Show me a religion that doesn't care about hospitality.
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There are a score of great religions in the world, each with scores or hundreds of sects, each with its priestly orders, its complicated creed and ritual, its heavens and hells. Each has its thousands or millions or hundreds of millions of true believers each damns all the others with more or less heartiness - and each is a mighty fortress of graft.
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All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
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To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.
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The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.
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It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.
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A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.
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Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, Needs only to be seen to be admired.
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I believe that whether a person follows any religion or not is unimportant, he or she must have a good heart, a warm heart.
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Religion has been defined as designed to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable. We do well to think of the parables of Jesus as doing the afflicting. Therefore, if we hear a parable and think, 'I really like that' or, worse, fail to take any challenge, we are not listening well enough.
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Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.
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I claim to represent all the cultures, for my religion, whatever it may be called, demands the fulfillment of all the cultures.
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My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own.
