Religion Quotes
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God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. You can express the same thought, but to different people you have to use a different language. Its the same in religion.
Huston Smith -
I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.
Mike Schmidt
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One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them, when fully understood, it will be found a potent and consistent auxiliary to it, exalting our conviction of the Power, and Wisdom, and Goodness of the Creator.
William Buckland -
Religion dies hard in the Irish.
Katharine Tynan -
Simply disabling specific critical thinking skills is all that is necessary for the god virus [to take control of a person].
Darrel Ray -
All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.
Patrick Henry -
No religion is higher than humanity.
Abdul Sattar Edhi
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It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because of that preliminary embarrassing question: what is intended by myth? It is also because the answers given depend for the most part on the documents selected.
Mircea Eliade -
“The late proceedings of those daring invaders to establish a national religion have opened the eyes of all lovers of liberty and religion... I have been told they have thrown off the mask and are preaching to the people to elect none but godly men to represent them in the General and State Legislatures; ... what they mean by godly people, is people of their own stamp...”
Anne Royall -
Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits. It is intellectual bankruptcy.
Dan Barker -
My faith is that the only soul a man must save is his own.
William O. Douglas -
I have no problem with religion, and I grew up with a strong curiosity about spiritual matters, but my searching took me away from church and community worship to the internal journey. Before my recovery began, I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith -
I want to see people do more than simply raise their hand when they come to Christ. Where are the totally changed lives?
Francis Chan
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Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art".
Ezra Pound -
[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.
Richard Feynman -
In his address of 19 September 1796, given as he prepared to leave office, President George Washington spoke about the importance of morality to the country's well-being: Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports. . . . And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. . . . Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue?
George Washington -
No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth.
Blaise Pascal -
My personal religion peremptorily forbids me to hate anybody.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts.
Blaise Pascal
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In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of 'reason' as single sources of authority.
Bernard Crick -
The Constitution has never treated religion as merely another private opinion that government can order people to keep to themselves.
Josh Hawley -
Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.
George Santayana -
In religion as in parenthood, uncritical loyalty to our ancestors may implicate us in an injustice against our descendants: imprisoning them in the errors of our ancestors.
Brian D. McLaren