Religion Quotes
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If, while hurrying ostensibly to the temple of truth, we hand the reins over to our personal interests which look aside at very different guiding stars, for instance at the tastes and foibles of our contemporaries, at the established religion, but in particular at the hints and suggestions of those at the head of affairs, then how shall we ever reach the high, precipitous, bare rock whereon stands the temple of truth?
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
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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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The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion.
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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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Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.
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The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion.
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And as to carrying religion into everything, how can one help it if one's religion is a vital part of one's self, not a cloak put on to go to church in and hang up out of the way against next Sunday?
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Show true religion, cause words don't relieve
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The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.
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The devil makes a great deal of the religion we see.
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In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days.
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I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it's fiction.
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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.
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It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one.
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Not believing in anything is also a religion.
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My religion is inclusivity.
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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
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And yet when you take Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, whatever, their combined killings in the name of religion -- well, that would be zero.
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I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.
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If one's careful study of the facts shows that the Catholic Church is correct about Jesus-his life, teachings, death, and Resurrection-then why not give the Church the benefit of the doubt and carefully study her reasons for rejecting contraception, homosexual acts, and women's ordination?
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I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.
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Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands.
