Religion Quotes
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Properly speaking, all true work is religion.
Thomas Carlyle
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Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
Berthold Auerbach
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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
Benjamin Rush
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In the past 10,000 years, humans have devised roughly 100,000 religions based on roughly 2,500 gods. So the only difference between myself and the believers is that I am skeptical of 2,500 gods whereas they are skeptical of 2,499 gods. We're only one God away from total agreement.
Michael Shermer
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Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.
Henry Ward Beecher
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I want to be the president for all Americans, regardless of your political beliefs, where you come from, what you look like, your religion.
Hillary Clinton
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The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.
Ernest Istook
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Religion is a cow. It gives milk, but it also kicks.
Gautama Buddha
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Times change: it was once the custom to take a bath weekly and religion daily.
Evan Esar
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I don't believe any religion should be exclusive or feel superior in any way, or be judgmental. It should be a quiet, private thing.
Catherine Hicks
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To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do the religious. These two words express the two sides of the same fact, which is the infinite. Religion-Science, this is the future of the human mind.
Victor Hugo
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I learned from James Baldwin that one can be a novelist, essayist, and activist, combined. That being critical of one's country is a way of loving it. That travel is crucial for perspective. That faith needn't be confined to organized religion.
Emily Raboteau
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Imagine if organized religion organized billions of people and trillions of dollars to tackle the challenges that our economic and political systems are afraid or unwilling to tackle—a planet ravaged by unsustainable human behavior and an out-of-control consumptive economy, the growing gap between the rich minority and the poor majority, and the proliferation of weapons of all kinds—including weapons of mass destruction. “Wow,” people frequently say when I propose these possibilities. “If they did that, I might become religious again.” Some quickly add, “But I won’t hold my breath. It’ll never happen.
Brian D. McLaren
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Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Marriage is like a hot bath; once you get used to it, it ain't so hot.
Minnie Pearl
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Not believing in anything is also a religion.
Cesare Pavese
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There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.
Anne Nicol Gaylor
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I've never been one for religion, but yet I've never been what ye could call an unbeliever. What I say is, nothin' don't seem impossible once you've clapped eyes on a whale.
Elizabeth Goudge
