Religion Quotes
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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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There are grave difficulties on every hand, and more are looming ahead. Therefore, we must go forward.
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If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists' is to make a metaphysical utterance which cannot be either true or false. And by the same criterion, no sentence which purports to describe the nature of a transcendent god can possess any literal significance.
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You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality.
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Ramadan typically brings a spike in violence in Middle East. I get grumpy when I don't eat - but I don't blow things up. Religion of peace?
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“Get two-thirds of the states to alter the Constitution; come out with their national religion, and then let the people get their throats ready.”
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No wars are more bitter than those undertaken in the name of religion.
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Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.
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Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same.
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Relativity is a purely scientific matter and has nothing to do with religion.
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On this earth there are many roads to heaven; and each traveller supposes his own to be the best. But they must all unite in one road at the last. It is only Omniscience that can decide. And it will then be found that no sect is excluded because of its faith.
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If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.
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My wife converted me to religion. I never believed in hell until I married her.
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Religion is indeed woman's panoply; no one who wishes her happiness would divest her of it; no one who appreciates her virtues would weaken her best security.
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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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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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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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A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.
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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.
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Many people conceive of religion as something apart from everyday affairs of the world. They think of it in terms of ceremony or ritual or sermons and often it strikes them as being dull or not particularly interesting. Religion may be described in many ways. I like to think of it as a medicine, a healing medicine for the mind.
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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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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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Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.
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According to the basic convictions of every religion, the connection of religion with violence represents, therefore, a misunderstanding, a misuse, and an aberrant form of authentic religion.
