Religion Quotes
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I have the world heavyweight title not because it was 'given' to me, not because of my race or religion, but because I won it in the ring through my own boxing ability.
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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The ministry of fear that won't let you live. The ministry of grace that doesn't forgive.
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To use ones religion as a rationalization for lack of financial success demeans that faith.
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A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.
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Men have had the vanity to pretend that the whole creation was made for them, while in reality the whole creation does not suspect their existence.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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The way in which science and religion by and large complement each other is becoming ever clearer, as are the natures of the various points of tension between them and some possible resolutions of those tensions.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Myth is someone else's religion.
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A man without religion or spiritual vision is like a captain who finds himself in the midst of an uncharted sea, without compass, rudder and steering wheel. He never knows where he is, which way he is going and where he is going to land.
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To imagine the world without gods and religion is reasonable enough; to imagine mankind without them is an entirely different matter.
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I guess the greatest cliché we've ever heard, but the most important words spoken, is, love, you know, love your neighbor and, as you would yourself. It's a biblical term, it's important, and it's embraced by every religion and yet it seems to be a far cry from what we're experiencing today.
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The species of anti-Enlightenment religion we find among evangelical protestants is far more impoverished, anti-intellectual and downright wretched.
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Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.
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Whatever religion we are, we must pray together.
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It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.
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God is Truth. There is no incompatibility between science and religion. Both are seeking the same truth. Science shows that God exists.
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In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.
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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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It [slavery] has exercised absolute mastery over the American Church. . . . With the Bible in their hands, her priesthood have attempted to prove that slavery came down from God out of heaven. They have become slaveholders and dealers in human flesh.
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Religion-freedom-vengeance-what you will, A word's enough to raise mankind to kill.
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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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Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.
