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Religion Quotes
"Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed."
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"The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion."
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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."
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"What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don't want to fulfill, then they lose real meaning and steal the joy from our lives. And if we're too religious, we won't be able to be led by the Holy Spirit and enjoy an intimate relationship with Him."
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"Is the god the source, or is the god a human manner of conceiving of the force and energy that supports the world? In our tradition God is a male. This male and female differentiation is made, however, within the field of time and space, the field of duality. If God is beyond duality, you cannot say that God is a "He." You cannot say God is a "She." You cannot say God is an "It.""
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"Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too."
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"Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness."
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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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"Between Monday and Saturday men make an audience. On Sunday, they make a congregation."
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"Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth."
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"Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce."
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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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"The mysterious, invisible authority of the divine child over human hearts is more solidly grounded then the visible and resplendent power of earthly rulers. Ultimately all authority on earth must serve only the authority of Jesus Christ over humankind."
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"Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise."
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"As long as this belief, 'I am the doer' is not gone, one has not yet attained an iota of exact religion. He is still in the auspicious-inauspicious [shubh-ashubh] state."
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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."
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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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"Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic."
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"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."
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"Christianity if false is not important. If Christianity is true however it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important."
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"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."
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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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"Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is told me, consider it in any way gratifying."
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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."
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