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Religion Quotes
"Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice."
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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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"It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself."
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"Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization."
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"Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there."
57
"Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference."
56
"So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma."
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"It was part of your religion to hate the British."
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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."
54
"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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"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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"Remember!--It is Christianity to do good always--even to those who do evil to us. It is Christianity to love our neighbours as ourself, and to do to all men as we would have them do to us. It is Christianity to be gentle, merciful and forgiving, and to keep those qualities quiet in our own hearts, and never make a boast of them or of our prayers or of our love of God, but always to show that we love Him by humbly trying to do right in everything. If we do this, and remember the life and lessons of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and try to act up to them, we may confidently hope that God will forgive us our sins and mistakes, and enable us to live and die in peace."
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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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"A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all."
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"If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless."
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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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"I need Christ, not something that resembles Him."
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"Religion has a good place and it has its good people."
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"Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society."
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"I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion."
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"Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself."
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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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"There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it."
51
"If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it."
50
"If your religion is better than mine and your opinion, you have a real problem."
49
"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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"If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion."
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"Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion."
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"The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing."
48
"I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed."
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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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"Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion."
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