Religion Quotes
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Angels transcend every religion, every philosophy, every creed. In fact Angels have no religion as we know it... Their existence precedes every religious system that has ever existed on Earth.
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I don't think the religion makes the woman; I think the woman is who she is within the religion.
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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.
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...The peculiarity about him is that he has what is essentially a boy's mind. What he thinks he says at once, says aloud. It is his distinguishing characteristic, and I don't know as he will ever outgrow it. But with it he has great qualities which make him an invaluable public servant--inflexible honesty, absolute fearlessness, and devotion to good government which amounts to religion. We must let him work his way, for nobody can induce him to change it
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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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It's difficult for me to ignore how many conflicts locally and worldwide have religion tagged to them.
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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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For the uninitiated, “ectoplasm” is a ghostly kind of stuff that writers like Dennett are constantly accusing critics of materialism of believing in. It plays the same sort of straw-man role in his writings on the mind that Paley does in Dawkins’s writings on religion.
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Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
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The devil makes a great deal of the religion we see.
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It's important to understand that violent Islam is only one face of violent religion.
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Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.
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I'm sad because I want to bow out of my race and leave my beautiful identity? Chinese love Chinese. They love their little slant eyed, pale brown skinned babies. Pakistanis love their culture.Jewish people love their culture. A lot of Catholics want to marry Catholics because the want their religion to stay the same.
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I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.
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I shall be very careful to preserve and maintain the Act of Toleration, and to set the minds of all my people at quiet; my own principles must always keep me entirely firm to the interests and religion of the Church of England, and will incline me to countenance those who have the truest zeal to support it.
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I think fundamentally, the real power behind the anti-choice movement in regard to abortion and the opposition to the rights of LGBT Americans is fundamentally religious. I know that there are people who are secularists who have problems with the rights of gay people and problems with reproductive choice, but frankly those people are few in number.
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But if you aren't any religion, how are you going to know if you should join the Y or the Jewish Community Center?
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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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Governments and their official representatives will be strictly neutral on matters of religion: not hostile, not promotional, simply neutral.
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Imagine ... Imagine no religion.
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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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Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
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I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.
