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"Only with grace, can we reach the goal."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"Only with grace, can we reach the goal."
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"Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness."
Hannah More
"Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness."
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"So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm."
Paul Ricoeur
"So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm."
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"Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin."
Karl Schlegel
"Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin."
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"The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area."
James Larkin
"The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area."
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"If someone believes in god, is he a liar? He never saw god or any proof or evidence of god. He only heard about god."
Debasish Mridha
"If someone believes in god, is he a liar? He never saw god or any proof or evidence of god. He only heard about god."
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"Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion."
Julia Ward Howe
"Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion."
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"Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of."
Joseph Joubert
"Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of."
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"All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many."
Ulrich Beck
"All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many."
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"Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again."
Lionel Blue
"Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again."
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"I think the church and the religion right now have a lot more to be worried about than SLAYER."
Kerry King
"I think the church and the religion right now have a lot more to be worried about than SLAYER."
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"If you think God's there, He is. If you don't, He isn't. And if that's what God's like, I wouldn't worry about it."
Haruki Murakami
"If you think God's there, He is. If you don't, He isn't. And if that's what God's like, I wouldn't worry about it."
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"We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure."
Shirin Ebadi
"We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure."
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"First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish."
Barbara Walters
"First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish."
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"Our task is not multiplying the number of our church members but making people happy."
Sunday Adelaja
"Our task is not multiplying the number of our church members but making people happy."
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"Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt."
Martin Scorsese
"Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt."
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"I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion."
Baruch Spinoza
"I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion."
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"Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion."
Israel Zangwill
"Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion."
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"We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion."
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
"We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion."
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"Satan had been making admiring remarks about certain of the Creator's sparkling industries -- remarks which, being read between the lines, were sarcasms."
Mark Twain
"Satan had been making admiring remarks about certain of the Creator's sparkling industries -- remarks which, being read between the lines, were sarcasms."
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"The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer."
Horatio Alger
"The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer."
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"O Lord, Thy Word, heals my wounds. O Lord, Thy Word, gives me hope. O Lord, Thy Word, strengthens my spirit. O Lord, Thy Word, revive my soul."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"O Lord, Thy Word, heals my wounds. O Lord, Thy Word, gives me hope. O Lord, Thy Word, strengthens my spirit. O Lord, Thy Word, revive my soul."
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"A true god surely cannot have been born of a girl, nor died on the gibbet, nor be eaten in a piece of dough... [or inspired] books, filled with contradictions, madness, and horror."
Voltaire
"A true god surely cannot have been born of a girl, nor died on the gibbet, nor be eaten in a piece of dough... [or inspired] books, filled with contradictions, madness, and horror."
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"The main reason why we look constantly to the Gita is that, whenever we need help, we may get it from the Gita. And, indeed, we always do get it."
Vinoba Bhave
"The main reason why we look constantly to the Gita is that, whenever we need help, we may get it from the Gita. And, indeed, we always do get it."
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"But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end of divine beings."
Carl Sagan
"But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end of divine beings."
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"There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion."
Reinhold Niebuhr
"There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion."
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"Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people."
Ernest Renan
"Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people."
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"Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study."
Norman Lamm
"Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study."
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"Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic."
Hu Shih
"Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic."
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"Lost in time but now I am saved by grace."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"Lost in time but now I am saved by grace."
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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."
Tom Tancredo
"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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"Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities."
Thomas Paine
"Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities."
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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."
Alfred North Whitehead
"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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"Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else."
Walter Koenig
"Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else."
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"The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion."
Fred Allen
"The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion."
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"Billions of people don't practice a religion at all."
Richard Gere
"Billions of people don't practice a religion at all."
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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."
John Harvey Kellogg
"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 bible gives me a deep comforting sense that (things seen are temporal,and things unseen are eternal."
Helen Keller
"The bible gives me a deep comforting sense that (things seen are temporal,and things unseen are eternal."
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"It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?"
Heinrich Heine
"It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?"
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"If he is not the word of God, then God never spoke."
Cormac McCarthy
"If he is not the word of God, then God never spoke."
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"Any religion which uses the words such as hell, fire, curse, burning, amputating can never be a religion of love because a religion of love must only use the language of love, must only use only the sweet words of affection, not the words of darkness and torture!"
Mehmet Murat ildan
"Any religion which uses the words such as hell, fire, curse, burning, amputating can never be a religion of love because a religion of love must only use the language of love, must only use only the sweet words of affection, not the words of darkness and torture!"
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"Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them."
H. L. Mencken
"Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them."
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"Jesus Christ saves the sinner."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"Jesus Christ saves the sinner."
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"When Christ ascended Triumphantly from star to star He left the gates of Heaven ajar."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"When Christ ascended Triumphantly from star to star He left the gates of Heaven ajar."
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"Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man."
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"Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science."
Henri Bergson
"Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science."
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"One Lord, one faith and one baptism."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"One Lord, one faith and one baptism."
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"A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion."
Mohandas Gandhi
"A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion."
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"After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which o-ne is supposed to accept without question."
Stephen Harper
"After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which o-ne is supposed to accept without question."
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"There is no reason to celebrate if God does not provide the victory."
Sunday Adelaja
"There is no reason to celebrate if God does not provide the victory."
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