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Religion Quotes
"I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting."
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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."
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"I don't want you to misunderstand me. You might get up and state what you believe to be Seventh-day Adventism, and I might not agree with everything you said."
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"The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion."
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"In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality."
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"Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas."
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"Religion's in the heart, not in the knees."
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"I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort."
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"While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships."
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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."
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"I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't."
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"I don't think religious groups should be allowed to apply for federal funds to start new ministries they have not been doing before the funding was available."
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"If supernatural life in God's paradise is more important than natural life on earth, then the day you received Jesus Christ is more important than the day you were naturally born. Jon 3:6"
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"For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness."
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"Now, if the writers of these four books [Gospels] had gone into a court of justice to prove an alibi, (for it is of the nature of an alibi that is here attempted to be proved, namely, the absence of a dead body by supernatural means,) and had they given their evidence in the same contradictory manner as it is here given, they would have been in danger of having their ears cropt for perjury, and would have justly deserved it. Yet this is the evidence, and these are the books, that have been imposed upon the world as being given by divine inspiration, and as the unchangeable word of God."
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"Not only then has each man his individual relation to God but each man has his peculiar relation to God."
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"Most Religions are Social Clubs with expensive Entertainment Cheap Wine and Stale Crackers."
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"I don't believe in sin. My relationships that failed have failed because I somehow attract devout christians. I don't believe in virtue either. I think people just do shit and it's life."
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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."
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"The Apostle "Paul's antidote for wimpy Christians is weighty doctrine. . . .everything that exists-including evil-is ordained by a holy and all-wise God to make the glory of Christ shine more brightly. We don't make God. He makes us. We don't decide what he is going to be like. He decides what he is going to be like. He decides what we are going to be like. He created the universe, and it has the meaning he gives it, not the meaning we give it. If we give it a meaning different from his, we are fools. . . . our eternal joy and strength and holiness depend on the solidity of this worldview putting strong fiber into the spine of our faith. Wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians. And wimpy Christians won't survive the days ahead."
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"Forgiveness is not a one-time thing that happened the day you received Christ. It is an everyday thing, for the rest of your life."
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"Minimizing the importance of transformed feelings makes Christian conversion less supernatural and less radical. It is humanly manageable to make decisions of the will for Christ. No supernatural power is required to pray prayers, sign cards, walk aisles, or even stop sleeping around. Those are good. They just don't prove that anything spiritual has happened. Christian conversion, on the other hand, is a supernatural, radical thing. The heart is changed. And the evidence of it is not just new decisions, but new affections, new feelings."
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"Isn't that funny, that deity is passe but the attributes and implications of deity linger."
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"I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion."
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"According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus will return only after things have gone horribly awry. Imagine the consequences if any significant component of the U.S. government believed that the world was about to end and that its ending would be glorious. The fact that nearly half of the American population apparently believes this should be considered a moral and intellectual emergency."
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"One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul but prayer puts my soul in command of my body."
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"God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love."
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"I was angry at myself for my inclination to vice. I longed for the day when a state of frenzy would lead my mind to sober pasture, just as it had for Saint Augustine. I longed for the day when the love of one woman would be sacred enough to forget all the rest."
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"I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth."
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"If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork."
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"As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school."
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"That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others."
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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."
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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."
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"Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way."
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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."
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