Religion Quotes
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Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.
H. L. Mencken
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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.
Walter Kasper
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Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
Jonathan Swift
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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.
Norman Vincent Peale
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I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare.
Erica Jong
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Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
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All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.
Cathy Ladman
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I am fascinated in religion and theology and what people believe.
Sarah Wayne Callies
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There are grave difficulties on every hand, and more are looming ahead. Therefore, we must go forward.
William Carey
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Allah set Hajj for the consolidation and reinforcement of the religion.
Fatima bint Muhammad
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Religion: Something comparable to childhood neurosis...
Sigmund Freud
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Our vow of chastity is nothing but our undivided love for Christ in chastity, then we proceed to the freedom of poverty-poverty is nothing but freedom. And that total surrender is obedience. If I belong to God, if I belong to Christ, then he must be able to use me. That is obedience. Then we give wholehearted service to the poor. That is service. They complete each other. That is our life.
Mother Teresa
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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?
Katie Hopkins
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The Hindus believe that there is no country but theirs. no nation like theirs, no king like theirs, no religion like theirs, no science like theirs.
Abu Rayhan al-Biruni
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Rock and roll is my religion.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
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In the name of religion, one tortures, persecutes, builds pyres. In the guise of ideologies, one massacres, tortures and kills. In the name of justice one punishes...in the name of love of one's country or of one's race hates other countries, despises them, massacres them. In the name of equality and brotherhood there is suppression and torture. There is nothing in common between the means and the end, the means go far beyond the end...ideologies and religion... are the alibis of the means.
Eugene Ionesco
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There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.
C. S. Lewis
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To me, religion is the Walmart of spirituality ... I mean it's prepackaged. Lowest common denominator. People just have to follow the present motions and rituals and rules. The don't have to think about how the words reconcile with their own hearts. Their own experience.
Bill Konigsberg
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I think religion is a funny thing because, when you see somebody who can really break it down, sometimes it feels foolish what you believe.
Kevin Costner
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Jerusalem is old, Jerusalem is new, Jerusalem can hold Moslem, Christian, Jew.
Don McLean
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When you get to mixing sex and religion, it will make anybody crazy.
Chester Himes
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Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.
Tom Stoppard
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If we are going to do away with polygamy, it would only be one feather in the bird, one ordinance in the Church and Kingdom. Do away with that, then we must do away with the prophets and apostles, with revelation and the gifts and graces of the Gospel, and finally give up our religion altogether.
Wilford Woodruff
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Video games are like a religion; you want to get people tattooing your little logo on their body so they’ll get somebody else interested in it too.
Cliff Bleszinski