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Religion Quotes
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."
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"If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church."
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"There will be masses available all day long. Confession available all day long."
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"Just as is child is conceived in a womb of a woman, miraculously, so is grace freely given by God, in sacred moment of salvation."
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"Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions."
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"I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion."
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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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"So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma."
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"Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is."
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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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"A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people."
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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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"Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions."
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"I'll do a little prayer here and there if I feel the need to."
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"Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment."
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"The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already."
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"Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost."
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"I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current."
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"Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion."
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"I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases."
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"Only in christanity that people that fall remain on the ground. When boxers are knocked down they refuse to remain on the ground or to accept a knock out. Even when they are bleeding with swollen faces, they still get up to fight but in Christianity even a push, not even a blow, Boxers gets up, wrestlers jumps up, Christians lie down.Do you know why? They do not fight a good fight, they expect to lose before they enter the ring. Every good fighter is an enduring person, they do excercise and training, they learn the act of endurance. You can't be a good Christian without an amour which is the word of God."
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"I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist."
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"As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school."
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"Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?"
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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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"The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper."
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"True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion."
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"The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion."
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"I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you when you do tell the truth. So I'm not scared of the end result, and that is the biggest asset I have."
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"You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality."
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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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