Religion Quotes
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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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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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In Indiana, we don't have an official state religion, but if we did, it would be basketball.
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When I am alone in the forest I always say my prayers; and that occasional solitary communion with God is surely the only true religion for intelligent beings.
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Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands.
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St. Pope John XXIII called for the Second Vatican Council because he understood, as no Holy Father had in a long time, religion spoke to and found its language and symbols - its entire sense of the sacramental nature of existence - in the imagination that reveals not just the penalties of living, but the wonder and awe of our existence.
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If there were only one religion, God would indeed be manifest.
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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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The biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself.
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It's important to understand that violent Islam is only one face of violent religion.
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Know your religion, know who you are and don't be ashamed.
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The strongest reason why we ask for woman a voice in the government under which she lives; in the religion she is asked to believe; equality in social life, where she is the chief factor; a place in the trades and professions, where she may earn her bread, is because of her birthright to self-sovereignty; because, as an individual, she must rely on herself.
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I am convinced that Jesus didn’t come to start a new religion; he came to proclaim a new kingdom.
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One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind.
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The future is religion and commerce, aphrodisiac and Benzedrine, a mother of mysterious comfort and a mistress of familiar ravishments ever on the verge of embracing or destroying us.
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In other words, science and religion occupied two separate spheres; in the pope’s view, Darwin might have explained where the human body came from, but that had nothing to do with the spiritual and divine aspects of human existence.
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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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Our religion will not clash with nor contradict the facts of science in any particular.
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Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.
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God is enough! All religion is enfolded for me now in these three words.
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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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My religion is to seek for truth in life and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not find them while I live.
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The object of religion is the imagination, that deep and inexhaustible font of our understanding and symbolizing our deepest possibilities.
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Pluck from under the family all the props which religion and morality have given it, strip it of the glamour, true or false, cast round it by romance, it will still remain a prosaic, indisputable fact, that the whole business of begetting, bearing and rearing children, is the most essential of all the nation's businesses.
