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Religion Quotes
"Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions."
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"In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears."
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"Dream not that worldlings will admire you, or that the more holy and the more Christ-like you are, the more peaceably people will act towards you. They prized not the polished gem, how should they value the jewel in the rough?"
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"So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that."
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"Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race."
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"A mighty fortress is our God A bulwark never failing Our helper he amid the flood Of mortal ills prevailing."
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"No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism."
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"It is important to abide in the word of God, pray ceaselessly, and fast regularly."
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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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"But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them."
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"Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it."
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"Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe."
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"There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion."
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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 have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish."
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"As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion."
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"Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand."
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"In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality."
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"Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin."
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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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"First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish."
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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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"The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already."
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"Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion."
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"Any religion which uses the words such as hell, fire, curse, burning, amputating can never be a religion of love because a religion of love must only use the language of love, must only use only the sweet words of affection, not the words of darkness and torture!"
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"Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared."
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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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"Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science."
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"Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly."
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"All men are Prophets or else God does not exist."
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"Most Religions are Social Clubs with expensive Entertainment Cheap Wine and Stale Crackers."
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