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Religion Quotes


"In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees."



"Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it which surprised me."


"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."


"There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion."


"Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders."


"Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science."


"The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence."


"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."


"True religious movements prosper and flourish under tribulation."


"I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire."


"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness."


"Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion."


"Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy."


"To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely."


"Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible."


"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."


"Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines."


"Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization."


"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection."


"If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless."


"Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there."


"I think we have to believe in things we don't see. That's really important for all of us, whether it's your religion or Santa Claus, or whatever. That's pretty much what it's about."


"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."


"Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice."


"Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there."


"Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law."


"Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition."


"Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society."


"I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization."


"People living without God dies first spiritually and then physically."


"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."
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