Religion Quotes
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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.
Nevill Francis Mott -
Real Christians do not carry their religion, their religion carries them. It is not weight, it is wings.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.
George Eliot -
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 -
Religion must affirm, in the clearest terms, that morality and ethical values are not mere decorative frills of personal opinion, not subjective superstructure, but intrinsic laws of the cosmos built into the heart of reality.
Bhikkhu Bodhi -
We're always going to be cherry-picking to make religion make sense. Especially in the modern context.
Negin Farsad -
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?
Elizabeth Prentiss -
If there were only one religion, God would indeed be manifest.
Blaise Pascal
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Wars have always started over religion.
Glenn Danzig -
Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: "Not my will, but thine, be done." What, then, does a man mean by saying, Science displaces religion, when in this deep sense science itself springs from religion?
Harry Emerson Fosdick -
True religion always moves us to serve others and to give our lives to see those oppressed find freedom.
Erwin McManus -
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 -
After saying our prayers, we ought to do something to make them come true.
William Feather -
Justification by faith is the hinge on which all true religion turns.
John Calvin
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One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind.
Hazrat Inayat Khan -
Not thinking critically, I assumed that the successful prayers were proof that God answers prayer while the failures were proof that there was something wrong with me.
Dan Barker -
By the time I turned fifteen, Communism had become my religion.
Ella Leya -
On the one hand, we are faced with the stewardship of this beautiful, subtle, incredibly delicate, fragile planet. On the other, we confront the destiny of our fellow man, our brothers. How can we say that we are followers of Christ if this dual responsibility does not seem to us the essence and heart of our religion?
Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth -
Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
Benjamin Rush -
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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It is an interesting and demonstrable fact that all children are atheists and were not religion inculcated in their minds, they would remain so.
Ernestine Rose -
Know your religion, know who you are and don't be ashamed.
Carlos Mencia -
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 -
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.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton