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Religion Quotes
"The lights of prayer that make us imagine we are beginning to be angels are sometimes only signs that we are finally beginning to be men. We do not have a high enough opinion of our own nature. We think we are at the gates of heaven and we are only just beginning to come into our own realm as free and intelligent beings."
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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."
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"There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion."
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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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"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."
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"I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way."
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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."
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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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"Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture."
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"Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it."
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"Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone."
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"Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt."
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"Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism."
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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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"Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen."
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"Now when I came to go up to operations, I went down to this patient's room and got down on my knees at the foot of the bed and earnestly asked the Lord to help us and to help me."
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"The deaf who deny they are deaf will never hear; the sinners who deny there is sin deny thereby the remedy of sin, and thus cut themselves off forever from Him Who came to redeem."
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"Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God."
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"The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image of Christ is better than no image at all. I think he will feel a good deal more kinship with backwoods prophets and shouting fundamentalists than he will with those politer elements for whom the supernatural is an embarrassment and for whom religion has become a department of sociology or culture or personality development."
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"While even pornography is protected as free speech, the courts have consciously undermined religious speech and freedom of religion for years."
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"The enemy came to steal,kill and destroy our hero Steve Biko. He was chosen by God and no one can deny that."
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"It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they (world religions) disagree, not more than one of them can be true."
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"Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion."
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"No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people."
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"We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it."
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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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"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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"How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?"
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"It seems to me that those who claim to be 'true' and 'bible believing' Christians and yet spend all their time and energy spreading unhappiness and hatred for others - and are themselves consumed by it - are by the very definition of the term - false prophets."
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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."
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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."
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