Religion Quotes
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It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.
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Science can have a purifying effect on religion, freeing it from beliefs of a pre-scientific age and helping us to a truer conception of God. At the same time, I am far from believing that science will ever give us the answers to all our questions.
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There is not a single contemporary historical mention of Jesus, not by Romans or by Jews, not by believers or by unbelievers, during his entire lifetime. This does not disprove his existence, but it certainly casts great doubt on the historicity of a man who was supposedly widely known to have made a great impact on the world. Someone should have noticed.
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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.
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Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.
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God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
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Any system of education...which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is essentially defective.
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True religion always moves us to serve others and to give our lives to see those oppressed find freedom.
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The obligation of the state is to guarantee freedom of religion, and that implies dealing with all of them on an equal footing.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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For many human beings, religion has been the music which they believe in.
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If there were only one religion, God would indeed be manifest.
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Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.
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Marriage is like a hot bath; once you get used to it, it ain't so hot.
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For ages this idea has been proclaimed in the consummately wise teachings of religion, probably not alone as a means of insuring peace and harmony among men, but as a deeply founded truth. The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one.
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Real Christians do not carry their religion, their religion carries them. It is not weight, it is wings.
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The story of Ramakrishna is a story of religion in practice. His life enables us to see God face to face.... In this age of skepticism Ramakrishna presents an example of a bright and living faith which gives solace to thousands of men and women who would otherwise have remained without spiritual light.
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Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion.
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Atheism is an effect of that knowledge [a poll showed atheists knew more about religion than anyone else], not a lack of knowledge. I gave a bible to my daughter. That is how you make atheists.
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Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .
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I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple.
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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and... in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and happy.
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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.
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Since my life as a prisoner has begun I have heard the teachings of the white man's religion, and in many respects believe it to be better than the religion of my fathers.
