Religion Quotes
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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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I always thought the appeal for vampires are the same as religion, the desire to avoid death and live forever.
Bentley Little
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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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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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Religion is the resolute following of the star of hope through triumphs and tragedies of time.
Eustace Haydon
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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.
Anna Sewell
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Justification by faith is the hinge on which all true religion turns.
John Calvin
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The affection is mainly biological factor. Then further sort of strengthening, that religion helps.
Dalai Lama
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Back when the natural sciences, philosophy, and theology were one great intellectual hodgepodge, proving the existence of God was a relatively commonplace exercise. To the modern mind, however, science and religion talk past each other.
Benjamin Wittes
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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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Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them, when fully understood, it will be found a potent and consistent auxiliary to it, exalting our conviction of the Power, and Wisdom, and Goodness of the Creator.
William Buckland
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The people must have amusement as well as religion...every pure enjoyment is from heaven.
Brigham Young
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Even if we don't have a precise idea of exactly what took place at the beginning, we can at least see that the origin of the universe from nothing need not be unlawful or unnatural or unscientific.
Paul Davies
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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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A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Football is a religion and Saturday is the holy day of obligation.
Bob Ufer
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In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.
Sigmund Freud
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The Dover disclaimer brings religion straight into the science classroom.
Alan I. Leshner
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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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While even pornography is protected as free speech, the courts have consciously undermined religious speech and freedom of religion for years.
Ernest Istook
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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.
William Barclay
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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 external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal.
Mahatma Gandhi
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A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization.
Mahatma Gandhi