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Religion Quotes
"If your religion is better than mine and your opinion, you have a real problem."
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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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"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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"If you are truly able to walk in the shoes of Christ, the very label of religion called Christianity would disappear from the face of earth."
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"Only the spirit nourishes the soul."
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"An image needs a living object, and a copy can only be formed from a model. Either man models himself on the god of his own invention, or the true and living God moulds the human form in his image. There must be a complete transformation, a 'metamorphosis' (Rom. 12:2; 2 Cor. 3:18), if man is to be restored to the image of God."
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"Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes."
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"For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of these laws. I am always astonished at the emphasis the Church puts on the body. It is not the soul she says that will rise but the body, glorified."
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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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"Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him."
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"If you think your religion requires discrimination, you're probably misreading your faith."
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"Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands."
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"I also never would have imagined I'd quote back a church lesson, but when the rest of the crowd stood up to take communion, I found myself saying to Dimitri: "Don't you think that if God can supposedly forgive you, it's kind of egotistical for you not to forgive yourself?""How long have you been waiting to use that line on me?" he asked."Actually, it just came to me. Pretty good, huh? I bet you thought I wasn't paying attention.""You weren't. You never do. You were watching me."
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"Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God."
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"He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion."
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"All men are Prophets or else God does not exist."
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"There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season."
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"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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"Religion begins from the time man starts to give happiness to others."
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"Or maybe that's what it's all about: this religion's substance is its lack of substance. In McLuhanesque terms, the medium is the message. Some people might find that cool."McLuhanesque?"Hey, look, even I read a book now and then, Ayumi protested. "McLuhan was ahead of his time. He was so popular for a while that people tend not to take him seriously, but what he had to say was right."In other words, the package itself is the contents. Is that it?"Exactly. The characteristics of the package determine the nature of the contents, not the other way around."
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"For instance, if Jesus Christ had died in prison, with no one watching and with no one there to mourn or torture him, would we be saved?With all due respect.According to the agent, the biggest factor that makes you a saint is the amount of press coverage you get."
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"I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good."
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"Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act."
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"All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need."
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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?"
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"I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority."
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"It is important to view current events through Christ-like eyes."
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"The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions of those who pay them."
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"It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide."
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"It is not by driving away our brother that we can be alone with God."
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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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