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Religion Quotes
"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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"When the subject is sacred, proud and clever men may come to think that the outsiders who don't know it are not merely inferior to them in skill but lower in God's eyes; as the priests said, 'All that rabble who are not experts in the Torah are accursed.' and as this pride increases, the 'subject' or study which confers such privilege will grow more and more complicated, the list of things forbidden will increase, till to get through a single day without supposed sin becomes like an elaborate step-dance, and this horrible network breeds self-righteousness in some and haunting anxiety in others."
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"I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil."
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"I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock."
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"There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious."
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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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"The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already."
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"Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science."
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"Primitive societies without religion have never been found."
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"The problem with the church is the church."
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"Less abject but more shocking was the letter from the Founder of the Calvary Tabernacle Association in Oklahoma: Professor Einstein, I believe that every Christian in America will answer you, 'We will not give up our belief in our God and his son Jesus Christ, but we invite you, if you do not believe in the God of the people of this nation, to go back where you came from.' I have done everything in my power to be a blessing to Israel, and then you come along and with one statement from your blasphemous tongue, do more to hurt the cause of your people than all the efforts of the Christians who..."
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"The lights of prayer that make us imagine we are beginning to be angels are sometimes only signs that we are finally beginning to be men. We do not have a high enough opinion of our own nature. We think we are at the gates of heaven and we are only just beginning to come into our own realm as free and intelligent beings."
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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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"Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves."
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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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"We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure."
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"Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic."
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"You haven't heard a damn word I've said. See, this is why I can't stand your kinds. You light your candles and mumble your latin spells and pray to a god who isn't there, doesn't care, or is just plain crazy or cruel or both. The world burns and you praise the asshole who either set it or let it."
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"Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion."
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"We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them."
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"We are all born like Catholics . . . in limbo, without religion."
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"It is important to abide in the word of God, pray ceaselessly, and fast regularly."
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"The objections to religion are of two sorts -- intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no reason to suppose any religion true, the moral objection is that religious precepts date from a time when men were more cruel than they are and therefore tend to perpetuate inhumanities which the moral conscience of the age would otherwise outgrow."
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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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"I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things."
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