Religion Quotes
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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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Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion.
Austin Phelps
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We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols that possess fallen man, religion that is the justification for these idols.
Alexander Schmemann
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So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.
Will Durant
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All who contribute to the overthrow of religion, or to the ruin of kingdoms and commonwealths, all who are foes to letters and to the arts which confer honour and benefit on the human race (among whom I reckon the impious, the cruel, the ignorant, the indolent, the base and the worthless), are held in infamy and detestation.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion.
Butterfly McQueen
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My religion is life, and my church is the universe.
Benjamin F Sullivan
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A profession that we are a nation "under God" is identical, for establishment clause purposes, to a profession that we are a nation "under Jesus," a nation "under Vishnu," a nation "under Zeus," or a nation "under no god," because none of these professions can be neutral with respect to religion.
Alfred Goodwin
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On the other hand, famous evolutionists such as Dobzhansky were firm believers in a personal God. He would work as a scientist all week and then on Sunday get down on his knees and pray to God. Frankly I've never been able to understand it because you would need two totally different compartments in your brain, one that deals with religion and the other with everything else.
Ernst Mayr
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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.
L. Ron Hubbard
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I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.
Victor Hugo
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Sin is not just breaking God's laws; it is breaking His heart.
Adrian Rogers
