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Religion Quotes
"My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another."
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"I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt religion in conversation with others."
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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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"To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy."
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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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"Religion is the last refuge of human savagery."
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"Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations."
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"People living without God dies first spiritually and then physically."
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"Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper!"
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"I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow, it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time."
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"I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion."
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"The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition."
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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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"There will be masses available all day long. Confession available all day long."
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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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"I do engineering, not religion."
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"Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing."
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"I'm not into this judgmental, religious-right kind of thing."
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"Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome."
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"The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing."
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"We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion."
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"God is not looking for people to work for him, so much as he is looking for people ho will let him work for them. The gospel is not a Help Wanted ad. Neither is the call to to Christian service. On the contrary, the gospel commands us to give up and hang out a Help Wanted sign (this is the basic meaning of prayer). Then the gospel promises that God will work for us if we do. He will not surrender the glory of being the Giver."
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"Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference."
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"I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve."
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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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"Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions."
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