Religion Quotes
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I would like to repeat it: the respect for the people that belong to this land is total. The respect to any religion is total.
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Religion, like beauty, cannot be experienced in cold blood.
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Human rights are universally valid and indivisible, regardless of culture and religion.
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God is not about religion. Religion is a structure that should house our faith in God. Too often it is used to hurt other people in God's name.
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Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.
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. . . every age thinks it is perfect, especially in religion.
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The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion.
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As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.
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Wherever a people have grown savage in arms so that human laws have no longer any place among it, the only powerful means of reducing it is religion.
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... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.
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I want to see people do more than simply raise their hand when they come to Christ. Where are the totally changed lives?
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Human existence is girt round with mystery: the narrow region of our experience is a small island in the midst of a boundless sea. To add to the mystery, the domain of our earthly existence is not only an island of infinite space, but also in infinite time. The past and the future are alike shrouded from us: we neither know the origin of anything which is, nor its final destination.
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Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
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You live on Earth only for a few short years which you call an incarnation, and then you leave your body as an outworn dress and go for refreshment to your true home in the spirit.
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Whilst you live a very little religion seems enough; but believe me, it requires a great deal when you come to die.
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One seems to believe almost all that they believe; and when they stop short and call it a Religion, and you pass on, and call it only a reminiscence of one, should you not part with the kiss of peace?
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(W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.
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It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They have also fabricated pious fraud. Most believers in a religion understand this when examining the claims of other religions.
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Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
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It doesn't matter whether you're black or white, practice a different religion, come from a different culture, or have a disability. If you're different from most of the people you're surrounded by, some people might not be as tolerant as they should be.
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In the process of writing '13,' friends were asking if I was OK because I was saying things about religion or about intervening in other countries militarily that I wouldn't normally spout over dinner. In the moment of writing the play, I genuinely changed what I thought.
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Hello God, if we are still on speaking terms, can you help me?
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It's always been you know, religion that has been the primary impediment to actual relationship with God, because it creates a mythology about performance -- that you can perform your way into the appeasement of the deity. And you know, when you're born inside the cultural framework that I was, and you're born inside the religious traditions that I was, that becomes your understanding of spirituality: That it's about trying to please God. So, it's really not about God at all; it's about our ability to perform according to whatever the expectations are.
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A man of no religion, who dares use pain as a weapon, tainting it for mundane things.
