Religion Quotes
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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.
William Lloyd Garrison
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One step closer to the end of the world. The one-two combo of corporate greed and organised religion apparently proved to be too much for reason, sanity and compassion.
Trent Reznor
Nine Inch Nails
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Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.
Mahatma Gandhi
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To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.
William Penn
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The Mosaic religion had been a Father religion; Christianity became a Son religion. The old God, the Father, took second place; Christ, the Son, stood in His stead, just as in those dark times every son had longed to do.
Sigmund Freud
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Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I have always respected everyone's religion. As I say, there is only one God and a lot of confused people.
Hazel Scott
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O momentary grace of mortal men,
Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!
William Shakespeare
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Religion is a fascinating black hole to me.
Johnny Depp
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To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.
Anthony Malcolm Daniels
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No whiskey, no religion, nothing.
Charles Willeford
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There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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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.
Will Durant
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Religion is very enlightening - to those who don't understand it.
Chapman Cohen
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I've read all the books but one
Only remains sacred: this
Volume of wonders, open
Always before my eyes.
Kathleen Raine
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Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.
D. H. Lawrence
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In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction.
Simon Greenleaf
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Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe