Religion Quotes
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. . . every age thinks it is perfect, especially in religion.
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Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.
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I don't know where I would be without music. Even if I wasn't a musician, I think music is God. In a lot of ways, it's my saving grave. It's been my religion since I was a little kid.
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Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion.
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The history of man proves that religion perverts man's concept of life and the universe, and has made him a cringing coward before the blind forces of nature.
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It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because of that preliminary embarrassing question: what is intended by myth? It is also because the answers given depend for the most part on the documents selected.
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There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling - absolutely essential to mental health and happiness.
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The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.
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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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They were responsible for spreading the Buddhist religion throughout India and East Asia.
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Judaism was not a religion but a law.
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There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism.
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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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Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble;but the religion of Christ, which is the sublime civilizer, emphatically condemns it. Why? Because religion ever seeks to ennoble man; and nothing so debases him as revenge.
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God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.
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Religion helps you relate with the universe. Buddha was indifferent to the concept of god yet he gave us values.
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Music is my religion. Music is the only thing that has never failed me. People let you down, music won't.
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Religion dies hard in the Irish.
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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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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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Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.
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(W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.
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Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
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... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.
