Religion Quotes
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Religion: Something comparable to childhood neurosis...
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Those who think religion has nothing to do with politics understand neither religion or politics... The things that will destroy us are: politics without principles, pleasures without conscience, knowledge without character, business without morality.
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All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of men who had not attained the full development and full possession of their faculties.
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Myth is someone else's religion.
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Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.
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Men can never understand the fear of everlasting punishment that fills the souls of women and children. The orthodox religion, as drawn from the Bible and expounded by the church, is enough to drive the most imaginative and sensitive natures to despair and death.
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What is said in James 2:14 ff. is like a two-coupon train or bus ticket. One coupon says, "Not good if detached" and the other says, "Not good for passage". Works are not good for passage; but faith detached from works is not saving faith.
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Why do we need wealth? Security and peace. This is our goal and we passionately seek it because it is the way of life which we are charged by our religion to practise.
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To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.
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Jerusalem is old, Jerusalem is new, Jerusalem can hold Moslem, Christian, Jew.
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The final goal of all religions is to realise the essential oneness.
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True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.
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No religion, I'm just so explicit, I coexist in places you would never know existed.
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While religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.
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Every religion has had people going out and killing in the name of it. But that's not what religion is.
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Peoples of Egypt , you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that I have come to restore your rights!
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Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil morality.
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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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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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Rather than an excess of firearms there's a shortage of faith and family that has a lot more to do with what happened out in Littleton. Let's face it, our public square is more hostile to religion than it is to Marilyn Manson.
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Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.
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Real democracy means that no group or faction or leader can impose their will, their ideology, their religion, their desires on anyone else.
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If any one phrase could gather its (religion's) universal message, that phrase would be, - All is not vanity in this Universe, whatever the appearances may suggest.
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Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.
