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Religion Quotes
"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 never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution."
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"Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin."
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"Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century."
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"Our religion, then, rests on the credit due to these witnesses."
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"Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science."
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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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"It is important to view current events through Christ-like eyes."
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"I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people."
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"You can prophecy without going to the bible school. If you acknowledge Jesus, you receive the gift of prophecy and you can prophecy. The holy spirit is always there for you."
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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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"We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them."
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"Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore."
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"To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy."
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"Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion."
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"St. Luke again associates St. John with St. Peter in the Acts of the Apostles, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples."
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"Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities."
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"May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in."
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"We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threads, tangled knots and the like. But occasionally, God's light shines through the tapestry, and we get a glimpse of the larger design with God weaving together the darks and lights of existence."
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"Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done."
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"The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition."
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"The Law was never given to gentiles but to Jews only, so why do so many gentiles struggle today with mixing law and grace?"
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"I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion."
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"Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there."
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"Religious people today, compartmentalize their attitude to the Bible. They pay it lip service as a symbol of morality while getting their actual morality from more modern principles."
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"True biblical love is a selfless commitment of one's body, soul, and spirit to the betterment of the other person."
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"Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions."
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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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"Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it."
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"Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind."
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