Religion Quotes
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The good Lord made this world and everything that's in it. The way I see it, baby, you got to love it to the limit.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.
Thomas A. Edison -
The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.
Henry Ward Beecher -
To reject the necessity of temples is to reject the necessity of God, religion and earthly existence.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.
Francis Bacon -
Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.
William R. Alger
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If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers.
George Frederick Pentecost -
Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths. What people need is beautiful, comforting stories that make them feel as if their lives have some meaning. Which is where religion comes from.
Haruki Murakami -
I do not believe in a religion that cannot wipe out the widow's tears or bring a piece of bread to the orphan's mouth.
Bill Vaughan -
A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave
C. S. Lewis -
My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study.
James G. Frazer
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After fulfilling its destructive urge towards everything that is noble and good on earth, it naive Religion sketches, in its opium intoxication, a picture of the future situation, which differs drastically from the order of this world, since everything changes and is renewed.
Bruno Bauer -
Early humans, bursting with questions about Nature but with limited understanding of its dynamics, explained things in terms of supernatural persons and person-animals who delivered the droughts and floods and plagues. . . .
Ursula Goodenough -
Religion is the process of unconscious wish fulfillment, where, for certain people, if the process did not take place it would put them in self-danger of coming to mental harm, being unable to cope with the idea of a godless, purposeless life.
Sigmund Freud -
Science investigates, religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power, religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with facts, religion deals with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Some people spend their entire lives devoted to a religion that claims to be the ‘right’ religion... they often deny scientific evidence that contradicts their archaic holy books, they sometimes oppress those who disagree with them, and they always do what they do in the name of an unknowable deity... but sometimes, they wake up. Occasionally, they realize that all religions are man-made and that none of them are ‘right.’ And when they do, they can live happy and fulfilling lives without dogma and without anticipating or fearing an afterlife.
David G. McAfee -
Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.
Anthony Clifford Grayling
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Allah set Hajj for the consolidation and reinforcement of the religion.
Fatima bint Muhammad -
No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
Isaac Newton -
The Sooners are my religion. I've been back to watch the games several times. I'm into all their sports. I'm a tremendous fan.
Joshua Morrow -
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
Salvador Dali