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Religion Quotes


"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."


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


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


"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."


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


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


"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."


"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."


"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."


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


"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."


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


"True religious movements prosper and flourish under tribulation."


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


"Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand."


"Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion."


"With that in mind and in celebration of National Prayer Day, today I have proposed in the House of Representatives a Constitutional Amendment that would restore voluntary prayer in our Nation's schools."


"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."


"Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves."


"Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way."


"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."


"Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions."


"Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery?"


"The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion."


"We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure."


"If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion."


"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."


"Religion has a good place and it has its good people."
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