Religion Quotes
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Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true;
We're only genuine children still in Age's season.
[Ger., Das Alter macht nicht kindisch, wie man spricht,
Es findet uns nur noch als wahre Kinder.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I think Christianity is the same as Buddhism and Hinduism - whenever a religion begins to say that these are the things you have to do to be loved by God, you have a religion.
Erwin McManus
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There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.
C. S. Lewis
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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.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Prajñāpāramitā Buddhism is not a religion suitable for the brainless.
Edward Conze
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Some of those who crafted the Constitution had serious doubts about tax-supported clergy. James Madison, for example, wrote that such employment was a “palpable violation of equal rights as well as Constitutional principles” and a “national establishment” of religion.10 He suggested that if Congress wanted chaplains to discharge religious duties, members should pay for them from their own pockets. “How just would it be in its principle!” he proclaimed.
Barry W. Lynn
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For man may pious texts repeat, And yet religion have no inward seat
Thomas Hood
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Probably in all history there is no instance of a society in which ecclesiastical power was dominant which was not at once stagnant, corrupt and brutal.
George Agnew Reid
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The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
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If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.
Thomas Carlyle
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One of my problems with religion is that it's limiting in so many ways. I remember the first time I took a humanities class, I thought, I can't believe this. This is fantastic. This is what I want my life to be. When I was a young person, I did a lot of dabbling in Eastern religions, and it was very satisfying in some ways, but there's that limitation always, which I find myself bridling against.
Barbara Hamby
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Religion is a thing of the past, the Party said, an instrument of oppression that keeps the common man in bondage.
Camilla Gibb
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Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Islam doesn't promote violence or peace. Islam is just a religion, and like every religion in the world, it depends on what you bring to it. If you're a violent person, your Islam, your Judaism, your Christianity, your Hinduism, is going to be violent.
Reza Aslan
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Religion is not what is grasped by the brain, but a heart grasp.
Mahatma Gandhi
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...Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of modern psychiatric treatments.
William Sargant
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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.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.
Victor Hugo
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We are not to renounce our senses and experience, nor (that which is the undoubted Word of God) our natural Reason. For they are the talents which he hath put into our hands to negotiate, till the coming again of our blessed savior, and therefore not to be folded up in the napkin of an implicate faith, but employed in the purchase of justice, peace, and true religion. For though there be many things in God's Word above Reason--that is to say, which cannot by natural reason be either demonstrated or confuted--yet there is nothing contrary to it.
Thomas Hobbes
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Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
Bono
U2
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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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The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day. This is why people of different religions can generally live in peace. At some level, we all suspect that other people don't believe their own religion any more than we believe ours.
Scott Adams
