Religion Quotes
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Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked.
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Far from being hostile to religion is capable of rendering religion important services.
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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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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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I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.
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Religion-freedom-vengeance-what you will, A word's enough to raise mankind to kill.
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If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.
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And this Feare of things invisible, is the naturall Seed of that, which every one in himself calleth Religion; and in them that worship, or feare that Power otherwise than they do, Superstition.
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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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Men hid behind religion to keep others from seeing how frightened they were, how inept.
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Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.
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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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All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.
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The real problem is not the religion itself, but its insistence that the interpretation it offers of the world is the only valid interpretation.
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Sometimes I think the environment in which we operate is entirely too secular. The fact that we have freedom of religion doesn't mean we need to try to have freedom from religion...
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And I find art is something that gives you something that you need for your life. Just as religion is something that you need even if you constantly find it denied today.
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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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I regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion.
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Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.
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There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
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A man who is convinced of the truth of his religion is indeed never tolerant. At the least, he is to feel pity for the adherent of another religion but usually it does not stop there. The faithful adherent of a religion will try first of all to convince those that believe in another religion and usually he goes on to hatred if he is not successful. However, hatred then leads to persecution when the might of the majority is behind it.
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The two great dividers are religion and LANGUAGE.
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I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.
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Christ's religion needs no prop of any kind from any worldly source, and to the degree that it is thus supported is a millstone hanged about its neck.
