Religion Quotes
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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.
William P. Young
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A man of no religion, who dares use pain as a weapon, tainting it for mundane things.
Aliette de Bodard
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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.
John Stuart Mill
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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.
Barry W. Lynn
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We do not need to prove religion to people, but to show them that they are religious.
George Tyrrell
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What manner of thing this 'public opinion' is, should be best known to those who have its name forever in their mouths and erect the regard for it into a positive article of religion. Its self-styled organ in our times is the 'Press.'
Richard Wagner
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It is an interesting and demonstrable fact that all children are atheists and were not religion inculcated in their minds, they would remain so.
Ernestine Rose
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Religion, like philosophy, is a living thing. If it isn’t allowed to change with the times, if it is left to calcify, it will surely become irrelevant.
Eric Van Lustbader
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The devil makes a great deal of the religion we see.
Elizabeth Charles
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Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.
Mahatma Gandhi
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In other words, science and religion occupied two separate spheres; in the pope’s view, Darwin might have explained where the human body came from, but that had nothing to do with the spiritual and divine aspects of human existence.
Edward Humes
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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.
Hu Shih
