Religion Quotes
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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.
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Well, obviously religion must come from inside.
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Does history warrant the conclusion that religion is necessary to morality - that a natural ethic is too weak to withstand the savagery that lurks under civilization and emerges in our dreams, crimes and wars? ... There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
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The temples had been deserted and the venerable liturgies forgotten. But this was only one of the ebb-tides in the ever-moving sea of human life. The years of spiritual dearth were followed by years of spiritual plenty. The first three centuries of the Christian era were marked by a general enthusiasm for religion. Christian began in the midst of a religious revival.
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The Dover disclaimer brings religion straight into the science classroom.
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Whatever religion or wisdom, spirituality and values are important to me and to the business.
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There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.
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He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.
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My religion and my patriotism derived from my religion, embrace all life.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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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!
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I believe God created the world for a purpose. The Designer of intelligent design is, ultimately, the Christian God.
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I don't think religions will merge into a great global faith. But I do believe we're moving toward a global ideology that has a place for religion and recognizes the contributions of the different traditions. Hopefully, it will have an overarching view as to how we can work together for the promotion of human values and spirituality.
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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.
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Outlawing religion form the political arena is not what the Founding Fathers intended when they drafted the First Amendment. We do a grave disservice to our country by removing the influence of religion. If you separate God from the public arena, inevitably you separate good from our government.
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The word religion has such bad connotations for me, that it's been responsible for wars, and it shouldn't be that way at all, it's just the way the meaning of the word has evolved to me. I have to wonder what we did on this planet before religion.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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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 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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Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.
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Religion is, in fact, the dominion of the soul; it is the hope, the anchor of safety, the deliverance from evil. What a service has Christianity rendered to humanity!
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The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.
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Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods.
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Commerce unites; religion divides.