Religion Quotes
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No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will have changed and character, not possession of wealth, title or birth, will be the test of merit.
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The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.
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Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom.
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When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
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There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion; in the bloody religions of the heathen.
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Religion and gods and beliefs - for me, it all comes down to your brother. And your brother might be the brother in your family, or it might be the guy next to you in the foxhole - it's about human connections.
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The world holds two classes of men; intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.
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As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion.
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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.
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Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question."
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More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world.
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Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.
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When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.
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I'm proud to be an atheist - it helps me stand for so much more and fall for so much less.
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The religion of Jesus Christ aims at nothing less than the utter overthrow of all other systems of religion in the world; denouncing them as inadequate to the wants of man, false in their foundations, and dangerous in their tendency.
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Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
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When a man has a problem very thoroughly and can't solve it, he really has too few problems. He needs more.
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.
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I don't have a religion, you know. This is what I am. I am a Rastaman; so this is not religion. This is life.
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The North American Church is at a critical juncture. The gospel of grace is being confused and compromised by silence, seduction, and outright subversion. The vitality of the faith is being jeopardized. The lying slogans of the fixers who carry religion like a sword of judgment pile up with impunity. Let ragamuffins everywhere gather as a confessing Church to cry out in protest. Revoke the licenses of religious leaders who falsify the idea of God. Sentence them to three years in solitude with the Bible as their only companion.
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Justification by faith is the hinge on which all true religion turns.
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The religion of Freemasonry is not Christian.
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Paradoxically, we have become so ethnocentric in our relativism that we feel it is only okay for others - not us - to think their religion is superior!
