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Religion Quotes
"Much of what is called Christianity has more to do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than any real movement toward a God beyond the small self, and a new self in God."
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"This total surrender to 'the love of Christ' is the only thing that will bear fruit in your life. And it will always leave the mark of God's holiness and His power, never drawing attention to your personal holiness."
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"While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief, it also taught that the answer to this was not to love things less but to love God more than anything else. Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope."
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"The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity."
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"A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality."
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"Not only did he unleash his emotions through rivers of tears, but for several days he denied his body food so he could pray and seek the God of heaven."
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"I've never had much use for religion, except when it comes to swearing or begging for mercy."
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"Grace is not an ancient gift but an elixir of the human spirit."
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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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"When you become a Christian, you are not on earth to fight for Jesus; God needed only one battle to redeem the souls of humanity. It was the cross."
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"Voting for a political party with a cross stuck on it doesn't mean it reflects true Christianity (at least not how Christ intended it) nor does 'biblical governance' guarantee Christian governance."
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"When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you 'You're no good,' you don't have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness."
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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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"The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity."
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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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"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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"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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"To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that lived here one can learn more in an hour of viewing than from all the books ever written."
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"Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing."
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"But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist."
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"The early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way - the pagan society was stingy with its money and promiscuous with its body. A pagan gave nobody their money and practically gave everybody their body. And the Christians came along and gave practically nobody their body and they gave practically everybody their money."
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"Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism."
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"The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race."
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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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"I do not politicize Christianity nor my discipleship as Jesus did not politicize either His divinity nor his humanity."
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"Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography."
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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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"I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?"
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"Many say that it is ethnocentric to claim that our religion is superior to others. Yet isn't that very statement ethnocentric? Most non-Western cultures have no problem saying that their culture and religion is best. The idea that it is wrong to do so is deeply rooted in Western traditions of self-criticism and individualism. To charge others with the 'sin' of ethnocentrism is really a way of saying, 'Our culture's approach to other cultures is superior to yours."
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"The Lord did not create suffering. Pain and death came into the world with the fall of man. But after man had chosen suffering in preference to the joys of union with God, the Lord turned suffering itself into a way by which man could come to the perfect knowledge of God."
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"But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!"
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"I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion."
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"You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it."
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"When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe."
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