Religion Quotes
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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.
Alvin Plantinga
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In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days.
John Lennon The Beatles
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I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.
Mike Schmidt
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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.
Gary Bartz
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The movement toward choosing religion, rampant as it is, shouldn't be surprising. Ours is an era marked by the desire to define - or redefine - ourselves.
Stephen J. Dubner
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What I've found is that the religion that matters, the real religion is love.
Muhammad Ali
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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.
Nikola Tesla
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
William James
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What religion is he of? Why, he is an Anythingarian.
Jonathan Swift
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It's something that exists on a daily basis on practically every street in India. You have people who are Hindus, Muslims, Christians - not just Catholics, but Protestants, you name it, all kinds of Christians - a hundred other religions, living side by side. And the kind of personal religion that people end up practicing is a bizarre concoction of ritual drawn from each other. So everybody ends up celebrating everyone else's festivals.
Anita Rau Badami
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For many human beings, religion has been the music which they believe in.
George Steiner
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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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I think it is going to be very difficult for any church that still calls itself a church, never to try and convince someone that their religion is the best one.
Barry W. Lynn
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They were responsible for spreading the Buddhist religion throughout India and East Asia.
Gautama Buddha
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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.
Mahatma Gandhi
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When you hear a person say, "I hate," adding the name of some race, nation, religion, or social class, you are dealing with a belated mind. That person may dress like a modern, ride in an automobile, listen to the radio, but his or her mind is properly dated about 1000 B.C.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people's lives, and you ruin your own life.
Eugene H. Peterson
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There is nothing in religion but fiction.
George Bernard Shaw
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Morality is but the vestibule of religion.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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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.
Geronimo
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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.
Benjamin Rush
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Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.
August Strindberg
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There are or is indeed no contradiction between science and religion, the fields of which are different, and which, far from mutually fighting and persecute, must, on the contrary, complete each other.
African Spir
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Bill Maher is right to condemn religious practices that violate fundamental human rights. Religious communities must do more to counter extremist interpretations of their faith. But failing to recognize that religion is embedded in culture — and making a blanket judgment about the world’s second largest religion — is simply bigotry.
Reza Aslan