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Religion Quotes
"Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition."
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"Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes."
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"Religion has a good place and it has its good people."
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"If your religion is better than mine and your opinion, you have a real problem."
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"Religion is boring and alien to me and relates no more than a chimera to what is to me the reality of the spirit."
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"I need Christ, not something that resembles Him."
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"I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve becuase I love Jesus."
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"There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it."
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"Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law."
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"Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself."
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"A mighty fortress is our God A bulwark never failing Our helper he amid the flood Of mortal ills prevailing."
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"Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions."
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"Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none."
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"Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society."
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"Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference."
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"If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences."
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"We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention."
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"I think we have to believe in things we don't see. That's really important for all of us, whether it's your religion or Santa Claus, or whatever. That's pretty much what it's about."
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"I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion."
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"From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer."
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"Only the spirit nourishes the soul."
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"Let the attitude of your life be a continual willingness to "go out" in dependence upon God, and your life will have a sacred and inexpressible charm about it that is very satisfying to Jesus. You must learn to "go out" through your convictions, creeds, or experiences until you come to the point in your faith where there is nothing between yourself and God."
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"There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it."
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"The "war" is being fought along the line between sin and righteousness in every family. It is being fought along the line between truth and falsehood in every school... Between justice and injustice in every legislature... Between integrity and corruption in every office... Between love and hate in every ethnic group... Between pride and humility in every sport... Between the beautiful and the ugly in every art... Between right doctrine and wrong doctrine in every church... Between sloth and diligence between coffee breaks. It is not a waste to fight the battle for truth and faith and love on any of these fronts."
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"This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed."
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"The problem of knowing man is parallel to the religious problem of knowing God. In conventional Western theology the attempt is made to know God by thought, to make statements about God. It is assumed that I can know God in my thought. In mysticism, which is the consequent outcome of monotheism, the attempt is given up to know God by thought, and it is replaced by the experience of union with God in which there is no more room-and no need-for knowledge about God."
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"The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments."
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"Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions."
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"Religion is the last refuge of human savagery."
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"To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse."
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