Religion Quotes
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A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.
George Eliot
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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.
Blaise Pascal
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Muslims stand by their religion entirely. It is a sort of religious absolutism. While Europeans have stopped defending the values of their civilization. They confuse tolerance with relativism.
Bassam Tibi
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With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
William Lloyd Garrison
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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.
C. Rajagopalachari
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The Dover disclaimer brings religion straight into the science classroom.
Alan I. Leshner
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Religion is a way of walking, not a way of talking.
William Inge
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To put into practice the teachings of our holy faith, it is not enough to convince ourselves that they are true; we must love them. Love united to faith makes us practice our religion.
Alphonsus Liguori
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Science and Religion both fail to give a reasonable reply. Science does not pretend to be able to give the solution, saying that the examination of things as they are is enough of a task; religion offers an explanation both illogical and unmeaning and acceptable but to the bigot, as it requires us to consider the whole of Nature as a mystery and to seek for the meaning and purpose of life with all its sorrow in the pleasure of a God who cannot be found out. The educated and enquiring mind knows that dogmatic religion can only give an answer invented by man while it pretends to be from God.
William Quan Judge
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In our domain we neither allow any Muslim to change his religion nor allow any other religion to propagate its faith.
Abul A'la Maududi
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All human thought, all science, all religion, is the holding of a candle to the night of the universe.
Clark Ashton Smith
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While I cannot be regarded as a pillar, I must be regarded as a buttress of the church, because I support it from outside.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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If anybody asks what Sufism is, what kind of religion is it, the answer is that Sufism is the religion of the heart, the religion in which the thing of primary importance is to seek God in the heart of mankind.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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
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But I think also you look at Scientology it is the fastest growing religion. It's helped so many people.
Tom Cruise
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Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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My religion is life, and my church is the universe.
Benjamin F Sullivan
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No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
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All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
Salvador Dali
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Some have cited race and religion as the deciding factors, allowing men who jealously guarded their liberty to obliterate the liberty of others who were of a different color and different faiths.
Annette Gordon-Reed
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Heresy is the lifeblood of religions. It is faith that begets heresies. There are no heresies in a dead religion.
Andre Suares
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The truth of religion comes from its symbolic rendering of man's moral experience; it proceeds intuitively and imaginatively. Its falsehood comes from its attempt to substitute itself for science and to pretend that its poetic statements are information about reality.
Eugene Genovese
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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund Freud
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Shamanism is not a religion. It’s a method. And when this method is practiced with humility, reverence and self-discipline, the shaman’s path can become a way of life.
Hank Wesselman