Religion Quotes
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The Jews would have us believe that God had this bias to this little small tribe in the middle of the Sinai Desert, and all the rest of humanity is just rubbish. I mean, that is the basic doctrine of the Jewish religion, and that's why it is a most racist religion.
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
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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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Religion is simply an ideal. It is an ideal force that tends to free the human being from material bonds. I do not believe that matter and energy are interchangeable, any more than are the body and soul. There is just so much matter in the universe and it cannot be destroyed. As I see life on this planet, there is no individuality. It may sound ridiculous to say so, but I believe each person is but a wave passing through space, ever-changing from minute to minute as it travels along, finally, some day, just becoming dissolved.
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People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.
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But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
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The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.
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'Tis the temper of the hot and superstitious part of mankind in matters of religion ever to be fond of mysteries, and for that reason to like best what they understand least.
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There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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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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O God! if I worship Thee in fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; and if I worship Thee in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise; but if I worship Thee for Thine own sake, withhold not thine everlasting beauty.
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I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.
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I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families.
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Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.
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Religion has a good place and it has its good people.
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Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country's security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.
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Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.
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If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.
