Religion Quotes
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Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity and rigor - the discipline, the call to action.
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Is it really true that religion makes people more kindly, generous, or loving? History tends to disprove this. The worst wars, the most vicious Inquisitions, the cruelest pogroms and persecutions, were both fomented and supported by religion.
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Religion has a good place and it has its good people.
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I kind of lost my sense of organized religion and became more spiritual from the experience. I would walk in the woods and to the sand dunes and the lake every day. That spoke to me more than getting up at six and the morning and saying some prayers. That had nothing to do with religion to me.
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The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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In the schools of the Western countries, there is always the subject 'Religion.' The Classics are China's religion.
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
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You've been acting like Jesus owes you a favor, but he's a little smart for you to fool.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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Love is the basis of our friendship as it is of religion.
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My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
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There is no [...] higher than the truth.
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You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.
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God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
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It was once religion which threatened us with a last judgment at the end of days. It is now our tortured planet which predicts the arrival of such a day without any heavenly intervention.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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Let's keep this simple: We separate religion and government in this country. That means the state has no business setting aside special days for prayer or other religious observances. Thomas Jefferson knew that. He refused to issue prayer proclamations during his presidency. James Madison issued a few under pressure from Congress but later in his life wrote an essay saying he wished he hadn't. Andrew Jackson followed Jefferson's lead and refused to issue such proclamations entirely.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.
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I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.
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Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.
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I believe that your religion should be between you and whoever your belief is in.
