Religion Quotes
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Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.
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We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.
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A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes in it, cannot speak otherwise than religiously.
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Simply disabling specific critical thinking skills is all that is necessary for the god virus [to take control of a person].
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A man has no more religion than he acts out in his life.
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The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.
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I am tolerant of all creeds. Yet if any sect suffered itself to be used for political objects I would meet it by political opposition. In my view church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact. Religion and politics should not be mingled.
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A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.
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Postmoderns are not less interested in religion than ever before. Indeed, they are exploring new religious experiences like never before. The church has simply given them a less interesting religion than ever before. Leonard Sweet, Quantum Spirituality: A Postmodern Apologetic...
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My religion teaches me that a promise once made or a vow once taken for a worthy object may not be broken.
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I'm the type of spiritual person that doesn't speak openly about their spirituality. Irony is probably my religion.
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I think while zealots fast and frown, And fight for two or seven, That there are fifty roads to town, And rather more to Heaven.
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Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.
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Whatever our religion, we know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else.
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There is not a single contemporary historical mention of Jesus, not by Romans or by Jews, not by believers or by unbelievers, during his entire lifetime. This does not disprove his existence, but it certainly casts great doubt on the historicity of a man who was supposedly widely known to have made a great impact on the world. Someone should have noticed.
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There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.
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Religion is just a path for finding truth: Religion is not truth. It is just a path. And different people follow different paths.
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Forgiveness begins the healing process - when you forgive God, life, yourself and other people - magic happens within. That's why every religion talks about forgiveness.
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Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.
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Commerce unites; religion divides.
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Religion turned some folks belligerent.
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Religion will disappear from men's consciousness when, finally, we have constructed a world of equals, without class distinctions, and with a sound of scientific conception of society and of life.
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Constantine, the Emperor, saw something in the religion of Christ's people which awakened his interest, and now we see him uniting religion to the state and marching up the marble steps of the Emperor's palace, with the church robed in purple. Thus and there was begun the most baneful misalliance that ever fettered and cursed a suffering world... When ... Constantine crowned the union of church and state, the church was stamped with the spirit of the Caesars.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
