Religion Quotes
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Our constitution mentions religion just twice, and both times the word 'no' are attached.
Ellery Schempp
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We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of government and religion we should have an equal place on this planet.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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God is enough! All religion is enfolded for me now in these three words.
Hannah Whitall Smith
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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.
John Ruskin
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There is no evidence for a god, no coherent definition of a god, no good argument for a god, good positive arguments against a god, no agreement among believers about the nature or moral principles of a god, and no need for a god. We can live happy, moral, productive lives without such belief, and we can do it better.
Dan Barker
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The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.
Georgia Harkness
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One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion?
Horace Greeley
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He prayed on Fridays with the Muslims, on Saturdays with the Jews and on Sundays with the Christians. 'Since each religion claims that it is the only true one and that the others are invalid', the king explained, 'I have decided to hedge my bets'.”
Ahmad ibn Rustah
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In Indiana, we don't have an official state religion, but if we did, it would be basketball.
Evan Bayh
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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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The object of religion is the imagination, that deep and inexhaustible font of our understanding and symbolizing our deepest possibilities.
Eugene Kennedy
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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.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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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.
Gertrude Atherton
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The soul of all is one soul and the truth is one truth, under whatever religion it is hidden.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Well, every man has a religion; has something in heaven or earth which he will give up everything else for - something which absorbs him - which may be regarded by others as being useless - yet it is his dream, it is his lodestar, it is his master. That, whatever it is, seized upon me, made me its servant, slave - induced me to set aside the other ambitions a trail of glory in the heavens, which I followed, followed with a full heart. ...When once I am convinced, I never let go.
Walt Whitman
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The biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself.
Diane Ackerman
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Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from.
Richard Feynman
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People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.
Mikhail Bakunin
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Make creativity your religion... because creating is soulful work.
Eric Maisel
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Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour.
Jonathan Swift
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Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands.
Sean O'Casey
