Religion Quotes
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Of religion I know nothing -- at least, in its favor.
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All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.
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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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Religion is like music, one must have an ear for it. Some people have none at all.
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Religion is an edifice built upon the dream of a beautiful world... Pity the dreamers are rarely builders.
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It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
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While religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.
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If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of human dignity.
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If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.
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Jerusalem is old, Jerusalem is new, Jerusalem can hold Moslem, Christian, Jew.
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Religion can only dream to do what science and art does every day.
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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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To use ones religion as a rationalization for lack of financial success demeans that faith.
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Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.
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My religion is the Earth, man. I believe in trees.
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Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion.
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If India's government is to be an institution integrated with her people's lives, if it is to be a true democracy and not a superimposed western institution staged in Indian dress, religion must have an important and recognized place in it with impartiality and reverence for all the creeds and denominations prevailing in India.
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"The only reason some of us are not exiled or thrown into prison is simply because we do not preach as fervently and as sternly as did Paul, John, Peter R.A. Torrey and others. This modern "santa claus" religion that is sweeping country today is not the religion Jesus taught and John practiced."
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To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.
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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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It is in the area of feeling that religion enters the heart and is expressed by man.
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Religion is the tie that binds one to one's Creator, and whilst the body perishes, as it has to, religion persists even after death.
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If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers to dictate to him, there will be no room left for quarrelling.
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The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to this country.
