Religion Quotes
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I would like to say in defense of the Christian religion that there are nice things about it. There really are. And Marilyn can tear up the Bible all he wants and I understand why, but... there's good things in the Bible. Good things. Like about, you know, not killing people, and... you know... not sleeping with people's husbands.
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I don't believe in religion, for I don't see that your religious people are any better than the rest.
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The two great dividers are religion and LANGUAGE.
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Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.
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Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of eternal blessedness, but of a very limited kind in comparison with the promises of religion.
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There is a Sunday conscience as well as a Sunday coat; and those who make religion a secondary concern put the coat and conscience carefully by to put on only once a week.
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My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.
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Formal religion only takes us so far – for it is both safe and doable. Love, however, knows no limits, takes costly risks, and looks for ways to give more.
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All you have to do is walk into any children's hospital and you know there is no God. Prayer doesn't make any difference. Those people pray for their beloved children to live and they die.
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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 as a whole specializes in sin management. It's all about organizing humanity in such a way that we cause as little damage as possible.
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The Mormons even baptized Anne Frank. It took Ernest Michel, then chairman of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, three years to get Mormons to agree to stop proxy-baptizing Holocaust victims.
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We were blood brothers, pals forever. He was my very best friend. Nobody else could see him. I now know he was just pretend.
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My religion has no geographical limits.
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Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study.
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...as soon as we examine suicide from the standpoint of religion we immediately see it in its true light. We have been placed in this world under certain conditions and for specific purposes. But a suicide opposes the purpose of his creator; he arrives in the other world as one who has deserted his post; he must be looked upon as a rebel against God. God is our owner; we are his property; his providence works for our good.
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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.
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He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.
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Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history.
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Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the wrong committed but by the right conduct.
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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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Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion.
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Prajñāpāramitā Buddhism is not a religion suitable for the brainless.
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
