Religion Quotes
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I think Christianity is the same as Buddhism and Hinduism - whenever a religion begins to say that these are the things you have to do to be loved by God, you have a religion.
Erwin McManus
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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.
Mahatma Gandhi
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If ever there had been a place to begin a religion, it was Los Angeles in the first half of the twentieth century.
George Pendle
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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.
Bart Ehrman
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For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But no one has ever observed an uncaused cause and simply inventing one merely assumes what the argument wishes to prove.
Dan Barker
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Religion must affirm, in the clearest terms, that morality and ethical values are not mere decorative frills of personal opinion, not subjective superstructure, but intrinsic laws of the cosmos built into the heart of reality.
Bhikkhu Bodhi
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God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.
Richard Feynman
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All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.
Patrick Henry
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There were statistically more women than men on the planet. Why should every major religion have been founded by men and propagated by men?
Arjuna Ardagh
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Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it which surprised me.
Moustapha Akkad
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Our critique of Israel has to be about the state, not culture or religion, but the state of Israel.
Aja Monet
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No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.
Honore de Balzac
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How many of you think it is time for American to stop pretending we are not Christian? If there's people in King, North Carolina who don't like that, there's lots of places you can move to.
David Gene Gibbs
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That’s because they don’t know. It’s like economics. Everybody’s got a theory, and some people make it their religion.
Ben Aaronovitch
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A number of aspects of mathematics are not much talked about in contemporary histories of mathematics. We have in mind business and commerce, war, number mysticism, astrology, and religion. In some instances, writers, hoping to assert for mathematics a noble parentage and a pure scientific experience, have turned away their eyes. Histories have been eager to put the case for science, but the Handmaiden of the Sciences has lived a far more raffish and interesting life than her historians allow.
Eric Temple Bell
