Religion Quotes
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The biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself.
Diane Ackerman -
There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.
Sean O'Casey
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Jesus is being lost in a religion bearing his name.
Erwin McManus -
For man may pious texts repeat, And yet religion have no inward seat
Thomas Hood -
The man who tries to prove his belief superior to the faith of another, does not know the meaning of religion.
Hazrat Inayat Khan -
The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.
Sigrid Undset -
But if you aren't any religion, how are you going to know if you should join the Y or the Jewish Community Center?
Judy Blume -
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.
Eugene Kennedy
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Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan.
Ezra Taft Benson -
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 -
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 -
By the time I turned fifteen, Communism had become my religion.
Ella Leya -
Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
Benjamin Rush -
Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.
Ernest Renan
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To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion.
Ravi Zacharias -
I say this because the Left has taken what passes for their principles as an absolute religion. They don't think anymore. They just react. When they have somebody like Barack Obama whom they put into office, they believed in the religious sense and, of course, that is a large part of the reason for their silence on these issues.
Nat Hentoff -
God is enough! All religion is enfolded for me now in these three words.
Hannah Whitall Smith -
Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the stars to a new telescope with a 200-inch reflector and beyond; not religion, that persists, and changes from old credulities and world views to new thoughts of God and larger apprehensions of his meaning.
Harry Emerson Fosdick -
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 -
Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.
Hector Hugh Munro
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Knowledge of one's identity, one's self, community, nation, religion, and God, is the true meaning of resurrection, while ignorance of it signifies hell.
Elijah Muhammad -
Some people, who are deeply involved in an organized, traditional religion, find it very difficult to accept that their way isn't the only way. And that their sacred text isn't the only text and it must be taken literally.
Elizabeth Lesser -
We need never refrain from asking anything of God simply on the ground that we think it impossible. God specializes in "impossible" things that are too good to be true.
Carroll Eugene Simcox -
Religion, like beauty, cannot be experienced in cold blood.
Evelyn Underhill