Religion Quotes
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Magic and religion are ultimately experiential in nature and should be treated as such.
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Meat eating and a compassionate religion do not go hand in hand.
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To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion.
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There is a Sunday conscience as well as a Sunday coat; and those who make religion a secondary concern put the coat and conscience carefully by to put on only once a week.
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Spirituality is recognizing the divine light that is within us all. It doesn't belong to any particular religion; it belongs to everyone.
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The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.
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Hamlet is a universal story that concerns us all. These issues do not concern only Muslims, but all people equally, showing that we all share the same problems regardless of religion, nation and culture.
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...Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of modern psychiatric treatments.
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Conversion was not a widely known phenomenon in antiquity. Pagan religions had almost nothing like it. They were polytheistic, and anyone who decided, as a pagan, to worship a new or different god was never required to relinquish any former gods or their previous patterns of worship. Pagan religions were additive, not restrictive.
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It seems to me that if you can't make a good solid case for your faith, you don't have a religion, you just have a habit.
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Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.
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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.
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Religion is very enlightening - to those who don't understand it.
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Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.
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Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.
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Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
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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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Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.
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Christianity is a strangely cheery religion.
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The earth is literally our mother, not only because we depend on her for nurture and shelter but even more because the human sepcies has been shaped by her in the womb of evolution. Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.
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I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it's fiction.
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The Christmas season reminds us that a demonstration of religion is always much better than a definition of it...especially in front of the kids. Perhaps the best Yuletide decorations are to be wreathed in smiles and wrapped in hugs. The miracle of Christmas is that a baby can be so decisive. It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty founder was a child himself.
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I do not regard myself as a Christian politician. I regard myself as a politician who just happens to think religion matters. I would be appalled, absolutely appalled, to think religion drove anyone's politics in a secular democracy like ours.
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In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the universal occurrence of biological evolution. Further, few natural processes have been more convincingly explained than evolution by the theory of natural selection, or as it has been popularly called, Darwinism.
