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Life's obstacles are God's stepping stones to greatness.
Author:
Sophia Martinez
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Faith is not believing that God can; it's knowing that He will.
Author:
Samantha Moore
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The search for religion is the starting point of thought.
Author:
Xu Zhimo
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Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion.
Author:
Israel Zangwill
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Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.
Author:
Brigham Young
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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.
Author:
Francis Wright
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
Author:
Frances Wright
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Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.
Author:
Herman Wouk
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Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
Author:
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
Author:
E. Wilson
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
Author:
E. Wilson
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God requireth not a uniformity of religion.
Author:
Roger Williams
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The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.
Author:
Kit Williams
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Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft.
Author:
Benjamin Whorf
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Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
Author:
Alfred Whitehead
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No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion.
Author:
George Whitefield
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Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
Author:
Benjamin Whichcote
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The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
Author:
Arthur Wellesley
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In a lot of Indian societies, spirituality has been lost, I think it's still the best way of looking at the world for Indians - better than any organized religion in this country.
Author:
James Welch
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It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.
Author:
Noah Webster
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The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it.
Author:
Noah Webster
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Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
Author:
Beatrice Webb
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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.
Author:
Warren Weaver
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Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.
Author:
Lemuel Washburn
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I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.
Author:
Sela Ward
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First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
Author:
Barbara Walters
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I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.
Author:
Barbara Walters
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I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.
Author:
Neale Walsch
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Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.
Author:
Alfred Wallace
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To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.
Author:
Alfred Wallace
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All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
Author:
Abdurrahman Wahid
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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
Author:
Voltaire
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Author:
Voltaire
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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Author:
Voltaire
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Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.
Author:
Ville Valo
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The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.
Author:
Peter Ustinov
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The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
Author:
John Updike
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The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.
Author:
Bjorn Ulvaeus
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I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That's not the way it is today, not even in Sweden.
Author:
Bjorn Ulvaeus
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A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.
Author:
Christy Turlington
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So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.
Author:
Christy Turlington
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Yoga is not a religion to me.
Author:
Christy Turlington
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Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
Author:
Alan Turing
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Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise.
Author:
Gene Tunney
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Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
Author:
Sojourner Truth
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There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.
Author:
Polly Toynbee
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The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.
Author:
Arnold Toynbee
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Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.
Author:
Paul Tournier
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I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood.
Author:
Rip Torn
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The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
Author:
Alexis Tocqueville
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When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.
Author:
Uma Thurman
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As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.
Author:
Kerry Thornley
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If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.
Author:
Kerry Thornley
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For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.
Author:
Randall Terry
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The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.
Author:
Randall Terry
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Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.
Author:
Studs Terkel
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A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.
Author:
Jeremy Taylor
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Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.
Author:
Allen Tate
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I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.
Author:
Tom Tancredo
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I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person's God is wrong, I could never say that someone is wrong because they don't believe in God.
Author:
Amber Tamblyn
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I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.
Author:
Billy Sunday
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How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?
Author:
Andrew Sullivan
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The Jews are a race and not a religion. My goal was not to persecute the Jews but to enlighten Gentiles to put them on guard.
Author:
Julius Streicher
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If God and man are in themselves one, and if religion is the human side of this unity then must this unity be made evident to man in religion, and become in him consciousness and reality.
Author:
David Strauss
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I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases.
Author:
J. Straczynski
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The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events.
Author:
Cat Stevens
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They have hijacked my religion.
Author:
Cat Stevens
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Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.
Author:
Laurence Sterne
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I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.
Author:
Howard Stern
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Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
Author:
Gertrude Stein
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The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.
Author:
Cliff Stearns
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I'm not really into religion.
Author:
Harry Stanton
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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
Author:
Elizabeth Stanton
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If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.
Author:
Charles Spurgeon
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All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.
Author:
John Spong
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Author:
Baruch Spinoza
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Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.
Author:
Stephen Spender
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My religion lies in my composition.
Author:
John Sousa
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Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
Author:
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The Bar Room has a corner table placed strategically at a point diagonally across from the entrance. the table of tables in the setting of settings in the building of buildings. In the religion of lunch, this is the holy of holies.
Author:
Raymond Sokolov
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Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
Author:
Ralph Sockman
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Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.
Author:
Joseph Smith, Jr.
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But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.
Author:
William Smith
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In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.
Author:
William Smith
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Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.
Author:
William Smith
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The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.
Author:
William Smith
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In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.
Author:
William Smith
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The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
Author:
Lamar Smith
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First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.
Author:
Huston Smith
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Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
Author:
Swami Sivananda
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Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.
Author:
Swami Sivananda
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Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
Author:
Isaac Singer
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But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.
Author:
Henryk Sienkiewicz
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Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.
Author:
Hu Shih
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Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.
Author:
Michael Shermer
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Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.
Author:
Percy Shelley
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Christianity is the only major religion to have as its central event the humiliation of its God.
Author:
Bruce Shelley
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To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse.
Author:
Robert Shea
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Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action.
Author:
Robert Shea
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
Author:
George Shaw
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There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.
Author:
Anna Sewell
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Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.
Author:
Yahoo Serious
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
Author:
Charles Secondat
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Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
Author:
Charles Secondat
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Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
Author:
Charles Secondat
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There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
Author:
Walter Scott
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Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.
Author:
Martin Scorsese
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No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.
Author:
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.
Author:
Mike Schmidt
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The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.
Author:
Friedrich Schleiermacher
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He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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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.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.
Author:
Philip Schaff
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Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
Author:
George Santayana
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Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
Author:
George Santayana
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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
Author:
Carl Sandburg
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We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.
Author:
Juan Samaranch
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I have always felt that a man's religion was his personal and private affair.
Author:
Leverett Saltonstall
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The United States is not a nation based upon race, creed, or religion - we are a nation based upon our loyalty and allegiance to our country and her principles.
Author:
Jim Ryun
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Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.
Author:
Henry Russell
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Far from being hostile to religion is capable of rendering religion important services.
Author:
Henry Russell
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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
Author:
John Ruskin
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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
Author:
John Ruskin
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To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
Author:
John Ruskin
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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
Author:
Salman Rushdie
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In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
Author:
Robert Runcie
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Every religion there's something foul going on.
Author:
Ja Rule
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
Author:
Ja Rule
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Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion.
Author:
Ja Rule
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I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families.
Author:
Ja Rule
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It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so.
Author:
Ernestine Rose
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Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.
Author:
Franklin Roosevelt
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Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
Author:
Franklin Roosevelt
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Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
Author:
Tom Robbins
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I broke with my religion in college.
Author:
Anne Rice
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Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.
Author:
Ernest Renan
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The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.
Author:
Lou Reed
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And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.
Author:
Bernice Reagon
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Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion.
Author:
Bernice Reagon
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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Author:
Ronald Reagan
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A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
Author:
William Reade
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Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.
Author:
Herbert Read
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I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.
Author:
Herbert Read
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We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.
Author:
Herbert Read
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One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers.
Author:
Feisal Rauf
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A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.
Author:
Joseph Ratzinger
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The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.
Author:
James Randi
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It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
Author:
Ramakrishna
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Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.
Author:
Bonnie Raitt
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The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence.
Author:
Robert Rainy
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We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion.
Author:
Akbar Rafsanjani
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Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.
Author:
Sally Quinn
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It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.
Author:
Edgar Quinet
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I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.
Author:
Charley Pride
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If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.
Author:
Dennis Prager
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I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you when you do tell the truth. So I'm not scared of the end result, and that is the biggest asset I have.
Author:
Susan Powter
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There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race - women. They are all oppressors of women.
Author:
Susan Powter
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Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.
Author:
Dennis Potter
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Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it.
Author:
Natalie Portman
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Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Author:
Pope Paul II
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No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.
Author:
Walter Pater
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If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.
Author:
Robert Owen
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To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that lived here one can learn more in an hour of viewing than from all the books ever written.
Author:
Rudolf Otto
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But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.
Author:
Rudolf Otto
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As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
Author:
George Orwell
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We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.
Author:
Origen
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If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion.
Author:
Origen
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Religion is induced insanity.
Author:
Madalyn O'Hair
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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.
Author:
Sean O'Casey
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It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
Author:
Barack Obama
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It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.
Author:
Barack Obama
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Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
Author:
Joyce Oates
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It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.
Author:
Paul Nurse
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Author:
Anais Nin
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There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
Author:
Reinhold Niebuhr
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Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.
Author:
Richard Neuhaus
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Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.
Author:
Richard Neuhaus
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But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.
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Liam Neeson
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Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.
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Taslima Nasrin
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The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.
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Taslima Nasrin
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I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.
Author:
Taslima Nasrin
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Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.
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Mohammed Naguib
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There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide.
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Len Murray
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Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Frank Murphy
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The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.
Author:
Lewis Mumford
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Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.
Author:
Kary Mullis
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Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
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Malcolm Muggeridge
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
Author:
Malcolm Muggeridge
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These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
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Van Morrison
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It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.
Author:
Toni Morrison
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Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.
Author:
Daniel Morgan
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Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
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Thomas More
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Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
Author:
Hannah More
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Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.
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Thurston Moore
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Indeed, the acknowledgement of God is not synonymous with religion.
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Roy Moore
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There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.
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Michael Moore
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I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
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Mandy Moore
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I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion.
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Ricardo Montalban
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Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.
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Mary Montagu
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Religion which is interested only in itself, in its prestige and success, in its institutions and ecclesiastical niceties, is worse than vanity; it is essentially incestuous.
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S. Miller
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Religion reveals itself in struggling to reveal the meaning of the world.
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S. Miller
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The task of organized religion is not to prove that God was in the 1st century, but that he is in the 20th.
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S. Miller
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We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.
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Jeff Miller
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More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.
Author:
Harvey Milk
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The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion.
Author:
Harvey Milk
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A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude which it would seem ungenerous to withhold.
Author:
Nelson Miles
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There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion.
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Arthur Middleton
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Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died.
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Giacomo Meyerbeer
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Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.
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Moses Mendelssohn
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Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.
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Moses Mendelssohn
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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
Author:
H. Mencken
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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
Author:
H. Mencken
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It doesn't make any difference what religion you are, or how young you are or how old you are-if they go to these abortion mills and stand there and pray-that would make a lot of difference.
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Norma McCorvey
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I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.
Author:
Anne McCaffrey
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I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today, and there will be about 2 billion by the time we're dead. They're not going to give up their religion.
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Chris Matthews
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Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Author:
Karl Marx
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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
Author:
Karl Marx
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Religion is the opium of the masses.
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Karl Marx
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Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.
Author:
James Martineau
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Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
Author:
Harriet Martineau
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Religion has a good place and it has its good people.
Author:
Garry Marshall
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Boy, if Garth Ennis had created a religion, I would sure like to be a part of that. It just makes sense, the way he tackles things in it. It's really heavy stuff and it's incredibly well written.
Author:
James Marsden
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I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
Author:
Christopher Marlowe
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Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.
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Ziggy Marley
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If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.
Author:
Ziggy Marley
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The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.
Author:
Bernard Mandeville
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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
Author:
Malcolm Malcolm X
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He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.
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Maimonides
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Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.
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Maimonides
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God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.
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Naguib Mahfouz
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Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
Author:
Naguib Mahfouz
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If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
Author:
Naguib Mahfouz
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I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.
Author:
Bill Maher
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We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies.
Author:
Bill Maher
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Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.
Author:
Bryan Magee
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There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Lucretius
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I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.
Author:
James Lovelock
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If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
Author:
H. Lovecraft
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Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.
Author:
Courtney Love
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Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.
Author:
Lance Loud
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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
Author:
Henry Longfellow
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True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.
Author:
Henry Lodge
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My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another.
Author:
Art Linkletter
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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
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Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America's flag and the ideals it represents.
Author:
Ron Lewis
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Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.
Author:
Flora Lewis
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The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.
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Jonathan Lethem
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
Author:
David Lawrence
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A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
Author:
David Lawrence
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The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.
Author:
James Larkin
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Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
Author:
Walter Landor
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
Author:
Walter Landor
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When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may.
Author:
Joseph Lancaster
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Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study.
Author:
Norman Lamm
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I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
Author:
Charles Lamb
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My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Author:
Dalai Lama
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Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.
Author:
Dalai Lama
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We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
Author:
Dalai Lama
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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Author:
Dalai Lama
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We fully support the strikes against terrorist targets, not against the country, not against the culture, not against a religion, but against an enemy of them all.
Author:
Ricardo Lagos
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For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God.
Author:
Lactantius
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
Author:
Hans Kung
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People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.
Author:
Irving Kristol
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Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.
Author:
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
Author:
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.
Author:
Dean Koontz
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Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.
Author:
Walter Koenig
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I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.
Author:
David Knopfler
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Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.
Author:
Bill Klem
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There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.
Author:
Jeane Kirkpatrick
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Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.
Author:
Jeane Kirkpatrick
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The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
Author:
Ben Kingsley
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The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people.
Author:
Peter King
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I think the church and the religion right now have a lot more to be worried about than SLAYER.
Author:
Kerry King
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I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.
Author:
Jewel Kilcher
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My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.
Author:
Jack Kevorkian
